Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on their way out.
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
I close all the windows in the house
and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast
but I can still hear him muffled under the music,
barking, barking, barking,
and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,
his head raised confidently as if Beethoven
had included a part for barking dog.
When the record finally ends he is still barking,
sitting there in the oboe section barking,
his eyes fixed on the conductor who is
entreating him with his baton
while the other musicians listen in respectful
silence to the famous barking dog solo,
that endless coda that first established
Beethoven as an innovative genius.
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Title: “Books”
Intro to the author; He is an American poet that has served two sessions as the Poet Laureate of the United States. He has been highly praised throughout his career and first received recognition on his book Questions about Angels. The New Yorker claimed that Collins could “turn an apparently simple phase into a numinous moment,” and Collins himself states that his “pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording instrument.”
Basic passage: “Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched in his own private coat, together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.” “I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light.”
Correlation: There are ways of escaping one’s self and going to another world in your reading. The line between reality and the book becomes blurred and the person can lose themselves in it. Just like Pope describes in An Essay on Man that there is a great chain of being and that man can not escape and they can only hope. We are created and we shall die but in-between that you must find yourself. The reading world is a way to escape and go to a world where you can cross over in to the world of angels and be closer to the spiritual world.
Difficulties: I had little problem reading this and understanding it cause of the hints that the author uses about stories like Romeo and Juliet and Hansel and Gretel.
Alexander Pope
“An Essay on Man”
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan
The proper study of Mankind is Man.
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state,
A Being darkly wise, and rudely great:
With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side,
With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,
He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest;
In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast;
In doubt his mind and body to prefer;
Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err;
Whether he thinks to little, or too much;
Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd;
Still by himself, abus'd or disabus'd;
Created half to rise and half to fall;
Great Lord of all things, yet a prey to all,
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd;
The glory, jest and riddle of the world.”
Title:Perception & Original Thought
Intro to Author: Billy Collins (1941- ), a widely popular poet, was born and raised in New York. After receiving his Ph.D in Romantic Poetry from the University of California, Riverside, his academic career led him to Lehman College, where he has been teaching since the 1970s. Collins was named Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 2001 and 2002. He often gives public readings around the world and on National Public Radio. As of yet, Billy Collins has published eight books of poetry and received numerous awards and honors for his ability to reach readers through his use humor and common experiences.
Basic Passage: "But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and toeture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means."
Correlation: In the poem "Introduction to Poetry", Billy Collins states that he wants his readers, and people in general, to find their own meanings and feelings from poetry. He feels there is no need to "torture" the poem or dissect every aspect to find the most minute detail. One should be able to have a personal view to its meaning because poetry is personal, meant to evoke feeling; these feelings cannot be forced on someone just because some textbook or highly educated person says it's so. Everyone has had someone force their opinions upon them. This takes place in both everyday life as well with the interpretation of poetry.
Difficulties: I had no difficulties reading this poem.
Tragedy: Some people believe it is necessary to dissect poetry to the point it has totally lost its initial impact and meaning.
Comedy: Collins realizes some feel he need to pick apart poetry and makes fun of this in the poem.
The tragedy could be turned into a comedy if people were allowed make their own judgements on poetry and not forced to believe certain ideas.
Title: Just Let a Bad Dog Sing.
By Daniel Wise, Inspired by a poem by Billy Collins, " Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun In The House"
Basic Passage: "The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on their way out."
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
I close all the windows in the house
and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast
but I can still hear him muffled under the music,
barking, barking, barking,
"and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,
his head raised confidently as if Beethoven
had included a part for barking dog."
Correlate: In this poem he compares his dogs barking to the loud burst and noise of the the musical concert by Beethoven. He also compares the dogs bark with a neibors dog who is barking loudly and obnoxiously after its owners leave. The dog will not stop. He tries to imply that during the musical concert that his dogs barks sound like he is singing along with the music.Therefore to me this just means that we should just let those bad dogs sing. Heck Why not? If a good dog can sing like Beethoven,then A bad dog can sing much worse. Well now then you must have funny problem on your hands when a bad dog sings a solo. Of course most of know that dogs really can't sing but that doesn't stop some of us from thinking so.
Title: "Introduction to Poetry"
Author: Billy Collins was born in 1941 in New York, and is still alive today. He went to University of California, where he received his Ph.D. in Romantic Poetry. He has been teaching at Lehman College since the 1970s. He is considered to be a "metaphysical poet of ideas". His poetry is very spiritual, but easy to read.
Passage: "I ask thm to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide"
Correlation: The poem titled "Introduction to Poetry" reminds me of a teacher and his students. Its kind of like Billy Collins is acting like a teacher and telling a body of students how to deal with poetry. He tells them to "hold it up to the light" or "press an ear against its hive". When I read this poem, I think he seems to be saying as you gently read or skim the poem go with your first instincts. You don't have to dwell over a poem for days and "torture" it to figure out the real meaning. Poetry is different for everyone, it just depends on how you perceive it. When you read poetry, you don't have to look for a correct meaning to the poem, you just need to be able to get something out of it.
Difficulties: I didn't have any difficulties, I actually enjoyed this poem.
Tragedy: People torture a poem until there is nothing left of it.
Comedy: He gives fun ways to look at a poem like "hold it up to the light" or "water-ski across the surface".
Comment on Brook's response:
I agree completely with Brook. The point to poetry is to go with "your gut", how it makes you feel. There is no "correct" meaning in poetry; the point is to take something away with you after you've read a poem. Individual interpretation is key in poetry.
Title: Winter Syntax
Author: Billy Collins
Billy Collins was born and raised in New York. He received his Ph.D. in Romantic Poetry from the University of California, Riverside. He read his works on the National Public Radio. Collins is a popular world-wide poet who has had a successful life.
Basic Passage: Bare branches in winter are a form of writing. The unclothed body is autobiography. Every lake is a vowel, every island a noun.
Correlation: To me this means that you start off with nothing when trying to write poetry. Just like in life. After you are born you have to make a name for yourself. As you get older you have to start making decisions whether good or bad that will effect the rest of your life. You never know how your life will turn out. You just have to live your life to the fullest. Like with my life right now, I would say that I am a good person and I have made something of my life, well atleast I am trying, because I am in college. But at any moment your life could be over and it would be nice to know that after you are gone that people are saying good things about you instead of bad things.
Difficulties: I really didn't have and difficulties with this poem.
Tragedy: Is that the character is struggling through the show to try and get somewhere. Even thought he isn't exactly sure where he is going or why.
Comedy: This would be a comedy if the character was traveling through the snow to go and visit a friend or a relative.
He went to University of California, where he received his Ph.D. in Romantic Poetry. He has been teaching at Lehman College since the 1970s. . He reads his works on the National Public Radio. He is considered to be a "metaphysical poet of ideas". His poetry is very easy to read.
Passage: "or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch"
Correlation: The poem titled "Introduction to Poetry" reminds me of a teacher and his students much like our class, except Billy Collins teaching the students how to deal with poetry. He tells them to "hold it up to the light" or "press an ear against its hive", “or walk inside the poem’s rooms and feel the walls for a light switch”. It is as if he is saying go with your first instincts. You don't have to dwell over a poem for days and "torture" it to figure out the real meaning. Poetry is different for everyone; it just depends on how you perceive it. When you read poetry, you don't have to look for a correct meaning to the poem, you just need to be able to get something out of it, and not everything is so exact or has to be this, because the color was red the land was abandon.
Difficulties: I didn't have any difficulties, I actually liked this poem. This poem says and tells you what poetry and short stories are suppose to be.
Tragedy: People “torture” a poem until there is nothing left of it and they put to much of there own lives into what they read and the poem gets lost.
Comedy: He gives fun ways to look at a poem like "hold it up to the light" or "press an ear against its hive". Author: Billy Collins was born in 1941 in New York, and is still alive today.
TITLE: "In Two Hours." Billy Collins has a Ph.D in Romantic Poetry. The New Yorker once praised Collins for his ability to "turn an apparently simple phrase into a numinous moment". BASIC PASSAGE: "He moves from paragraph to paragraph as if touring a house of endless, paneled rooms." CORRELATION: This line reminds me of a time in my childhood. I waved good-bye to my Father, then went upstairs and started reading a Nancy Drew book. I finished the book, my Father came home, and I realized that I had been totally engrossed and away reading my Nancy Drew book for two hours, almost to the minute. I still read a lot today, and yes I have every Nancy Drew book. I still get taken away by the words and images in books, but now perhaps 'to be taken away' is more of a necessity rather than a joy, although reading is still a joy and a privilege. DIFFICULTIES: I found it a real pleasure to read Collins' poetry; his images were so much what happens; very true to life. TRAGEDY: Is that some people can not read; that some people would not understand why the poems are so true. COMEDY: The joy in being able to relate to Mr. Collins' poetry, feeling like 'I've been there'. Tragedy can be turned into comedy by giving everyone a chance to learn to read with no judgements on age issues felt by those who need to learn to read.
Writer's Block- response to "Winter Syntax"
Author: Billy Collins (1941-)
Billy Collins was born in New York City in 1941 and is still alive today. He has written many books of poetry including , "The Trouble With Poetry". His poems have also been chosen many times for the Best American Poetry Series. In 2001 he was chosen as U.S. Poet Laureate.
Basic Passage:
"The unclothed body is an autobiography"
Correlate:
I believe he is comparing an autobiography to the unclothed body because usually when one is written, it exposes everything about a person's life, just as a person is totally exposed when they are naked. Everything is just laid out with nothing to hide behind. I also believe it takes a certain person to be comfortable in their own skin before they are able to put an autobiography out about themselves, especially if it is one that is truly exposing. I feel the older I get the more comfortable I feel about myself and the way others perceive me. If I ever got to the place where an autobiography was written about me, I would leave nothing hidden because any mistakes that I have made have shaped who I am today.
Difficulties: I had none. I also enjoyed Collins' works.
Tragedy:That writing is made such a struggle.
Comedy: At the end the "writer's block" is gone.
The tragedy can be turned into a comedy if the subject of the poem could just let loose and just write what comes to mind instead of forcing it.
Title: "Winter Syntax"
A. Billy Collins was a New York native poet who has received great recognition for his work. His poetry and books have won several awards and still teaches poetry today.
Basic passage: "A sentence starts out like lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight,"
Correlation: This line caught my attention the second I read it. As a musician I can relate to this. Many times when writing music or lyrics I start out with a general idea and pretty much like it says go head on into a blizzard. I never can tell where the piece will end up or if it will even sound the same as when it started but eventually it finds it way around and ends up like the poem says "a complete thought."
Tragedy: I guess it would be more or less the struggle or fight to make your thoughts legible or understandable.
Comedy: The "sentence" finds it way out of the blizzard and makes a complete thought.
Difficulties: None. This was probably the easiest for me to relate to that we've covered.
Title: Find your own way
Author: Billy Collins was named the Poet Laureate of the Unites States of America (2001 – 2003). He writes in a way that lay readers can understand, but his work still has artistic worth. He has received numerous awards from Poetry magazine and teaches at Lehman College in New York.
Basic Passage: Since I don’t have a hard copy of any of the three poems, I would like to discuss the mouse from “Introduction to Poetry” and the lone traveler from “Winter Syntax”.
Correlation: Collins has been said to be against over-interpretation of poetry and the writing of poetry for other poets and critics. This is definitely apparent in “Introduction to Poetry”, but it is in other places, too. If you think about the mouse, he is to be put inside the poem and find is way out. The lone traveler of “Winter Syntax” is trudging through the snow, pushing and creating his path with each step. These two figures could be thought of as the personification of the brainstorming process, or what Collins wants us to do with the poetry we read. Every time we read poetry, we might think about what the author meant, how the scene looked at that time, how this can relate to us, or maybe even picturing ourselves in the story. But each person’s reaction is different because each person’s thought process is different. We are meant to find our way through, whatever way that may be. In “Winter Syntax”, every lake is a vowel, every island a noun. This shows that while other paths exist and are perfectly acceptable, that may not be the path we choose. Even the titles support this theory. “Introduction to Poetry”, obvious, but trying to teach people what to do with poetry, how to treat it, and what it can show you. “Winter Syntax” to me means the hard, cold, stubbornness of winter, paired with the syntax, the order of words to show a meaning. I think this title is poking fun at some poetry, describing how it can be so form fitting and governed by rules as to not be poetry of expression anymore, but merely words on a page with no emotions and no sense of human attachment.
Difficulties: I didn’t have any trouble with these poems.
Tragedy: I think the tragedy is that more people don’t listen to Collins about how poetry should be treated. It is a useful escape for some, and an enlightening experience for others.
Comedy: I think the comedy is that Collins is able to make fun of stuffy poetry and be praised for it by his peers, many of whom I’m sure have written stuffy poetry.
Title: "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House"
Author: Billy Collins
Billy Collins was born in 1941 in New York. He received his Ph.D in Romantic Poetry from the University of California. He has been praised by the New Yorker for his ability to turn an apparently simple phrase into a numinour moment.
Basic passage: "The neighbor's dog will not stop barking. I close all the windows in the house and put on a Beethhoven symphony full blast but I can still hear him muffled under the music, barking, barking, barking".
Correlation: In this poem I think he is trying to blend the dog's barking in with Beethoven's symphony. I can relate to this because I have been trying to sleep sometimes and my neighbor's dog will be barking in the middle of the night and I will turn on the t.v. to try and drown out the sound. I think he justs get lost into.
Difficulties: I didn't have any difficulties.
Billy Collins
"Books"
Billy Collins was born and raised in New York. Collins got his Ph.D for Romantic Poetry from the University of California(Riverside). He has currently been working at Lehman College where he was been teaching since the 1970's. Collins has published eight books of poetry. Three of them have set records for poetry sales.
Basic Passage: "I hear the voice of my mother reading to me from a chair facing the bed, books about horses and dogs,"
Correlation: I remeber those times when all that really seemed to matter was a good bedtime story , maybe a glass of milk, and toys that was a great time. I think we all can relate to simplier times. There are so many times i wish i could go back to that. Its amazing what a book will do for you. As a kid it takes you to a different world to some far off place where anything goes. As an adult it takes to to places unimaginable.
Difficulties: I had no difficulties with this poem
Tragedy: The tragedy is simply this that we don't take time to read more books
Comedy: The comedy with this is just the imagination that the books pertory on ourselves.
Tragedy turned into a comedy: This could be turned into a comedy if we just picked up a book and read more.
Title: LIVE AND LEARN
Intro to Author: William J. ("Billy") Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served two terms as the 44th Poet Laureate of the United States, from 2001 to 2003. In his home state, Collins has been recognized as a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library and selected as the New York State Poet for 2004.He is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the University of California, Riverside.
Basic Passage:
"But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and toeture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means."
Correlation: This relates that poetry is simple. As is a lot of things to me. I am a person who likes to take things at face value. I despise people when they pry and pry into things trying to make things meke sense to them. That is not what it is about. Meanings are indivisualistic. It is not like a math problem when everyone is supposed to arrive at the same answer. Your meaning comes from your own personal experiences within yourself.
Difficulties: Not difficult at all.
Tragedy/ Comedy: The fact that society expects everyone to think and act alike. It is a comedy when you relate your own experiences to the situation.
Title: Winter Syntax
Author: Billy Collins is a popular American poet from New York. He was named Poet Laureate of the United States. The majority of his poetry is simple and spiritual.
Basic Passage: when he stands before you shivering, draped in sparkling frost,
a smile will appear in the beard of icicles,
and the man will express a complete thought.
Correlate: This entire poem is about the inherent difficulty of writing. How many hours do we as students pour into essays and papers searching for the right combination of words to convey our ideas? Even something as simple as this blog can sometimes prove difficult. The passage refers to just how long it takes an author to perfect a sentence, but eventually the thought is formed.
Difficulties: none.
Tragedy: It takes so long for an author to form a thought and this deters people from writing.
To a comedy: if it didn't take so much struggle to write well.
Title
I Have Never Had the Pleasure...If It Is A Pleasure
Bio
Billy Collins was born in New York city in 1941. He has written several books of poetry. His works often appear in anthologies, textbooks, and alsoperiodicals. He has also editing on a poetry anthology entitled"Poetry 180". He was named U.S. Poet Laureate in 2001. Writings are often humorous and he has a nack for taking a seemingly insignificant moment and making it a a spiritual one.
Correlate
"But the nearest I have ever come to fishing on the Suquehanna was one afternoon in a museum in Philidelphia when I balanced a little egg of time in front of a painting in which that river curled around a bend under a blue cloud-ruffed sky,..."
THe author writes that he has never been fishiong on the Susquehanna River in July actually he has never been fishing on the it at all. He even remarks that it is unlikely that he will ever fish on the Susquehanna. He admires a painting depicting a man in a boat on the Susquehanna. He admires it and thinks to himself"idont think I will evr do that."- and he is OK with that. I suppose I can relate to that. Like say when I have watched a movie about climbing Everest. I can admire the people's effort, the strenght of hte mountain. i can root for the climbers and expierience the thrill of victory almost as if I were actually there. Climbing Everest is an incredible feat but I have no desire to do it..just not for me. I am perfectly content to watch others climb the mountain and deal with frostbite, hypothermia, snow storms, and oxygen deprivation from the comfort of a theatre. Not to say it is quite the same as actually doing it myslf but it is a taste of the real deal and absolutley better than nothing. The writer is content himself to experience fishing on the Suquehanna in July through a painting in a museum. A man can not possibly experience all there is to experience in this world in the traditional manner of actually doing it yourself in the flesh. This is why art is so important... through poetry, film, painting, and novels we can experience things we otherwise could not do or something that jsut isn't particularly your thing... like Collins' thing is not floating around in a boat on a river. Collins talks about an "egg of time" he has to sit and look at his painting. Hindrances such as time do not permit us to experience all the activities that life has to offer... therefore to him a painting is like a small snapshot of the actual event and he is cool with that. Like he says he rather be a in a quiet room trying to manufacture in his mind what it would feel like to fish on the Susquehanna. I myself would rather experience real adventure rather than imagine it but when you get caught up in a story you love it seems true like a whole other reality.
Difficulties
I wonder i he is saying that experienceing something in a painting is just as good as doing it in real life or whether he is expressing with regret that he doesn't have the time to experience the real thing. Maybe he is saying "Man I wish I was out on the Susquehanna right now so I could really now the feeling but here I ma in this quite room trying to imagine what it feels like."
Tragedy: The tragedy is that life has so many things to offer but man in his fallen condition can not experience every single one of life's pleasures.
Comedy: The comedy in it is that the writer finds a way to experience new things despite his limited range and resources.
Title: Winter Syntax
Author: Billy Collins is a rare literary figure. He was names Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry in 2001 and 2002. He was born and raised in New York. To date, he has published eight books of poetry, 3 of them have surpassed sales records for poetry. The New Yorker praised Collins for his ability "to turn an apparently simple phrase into a numinous moment."
Basic Passage:
"At dawn he will spot the vine of smoke rising from your chimney, and when he stands before you shivering, draped in sparkling frost, a smile will appear in the beard of iciles, and the man will express a complete thought."
Correlation: I can relate to this. I have tried to write poetry and it can be a long hard journey like the winter syntax. If I can accomplish one "good" line, than I am thrilled. But also I think it can relate to one's life. All of the hard obstacles like the blizzard at midnight, and how you just don't give up and keep going until you spot "the vine of smoke rising from your chimney." You have reached your goal and " a smile will appear."
Diff.
I didn't really have and difficulties with this poem. I thought it was really creative how Collins related writing a poem to lone traveler.
Comedy: That he reaches the end and expresses his complete thought.
Tragedy: I guess all the misery and hardship he had to go through to get to the end. But without it, no one probably will have any good poems.
I agree with blh405. When your born you do have to make a name for yourself by making decisions as you get older. Just like in writing poetry, you start off with an idea and you build off it and make it into something.
Daniel wise said: About maggaly 0326 post, "Perception & Original Thought"
Titled: The Reality of Sympathy and Regret. I believe that The reality of this is that Books really do offer the readers the chance for the book to evoke their feelings through thoughts focused on by an individual or thougths that are said by an individual. Books are supposed to give thge reader a certain sense of meaning or interpretation, this is also true for poems such as the one swritten by Billy Collins. Wheresas when we learn to put our thoughts together when reading a story, book, or poem. We might become confused or puzzled by these thoughts about what it means. Thge same can be true in our lives when we grow older and learn to take on new responsibilities of telling the truth, or being honest, we have to get over the pressures that we are dealling with in a disciplined manner, not hostile or aggressive. But we also learn alot about sympathy and regret from our mistakes througout our life and we tend live and cope with our feelings. What might bring one person down might bring others down as well or no one else down. But as Billy Collins suggested I do not think that torture should be the right way to cope. Instead asn I suggested we must learn to cope with our emoytions and learn to find ways to rely on sympathy,forgiveness,and regret. When we mess up. Not to mention though there are other events which can cause this sense of rteality to be taken uder cosideration and tested if the mistake or mess up was worse than the ordinary persons self clumsiness or uncarefullness. These types of events tend to include any event which could lead you to a troubled ending. SUch as crime, or war, or felony. In the poem "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun In The House" By Billy Collins, we find out that he had wqritten it because he wished to turn the sounds of the dogs barking into a comedy because he really didn;'t believe in the reality of this "could be real", or "is this really happening to me."?
I completely agree with Chiante's response. Like I said before there is not one correct meaning to poetry. Everyone can look at poetry and derive their own meaning from it, that is why poetry is so great. I really don't think any poet creates poetry just for one reason. I think it is great that people can get many different things and ideas from one poem.
I agree with Brook and Chiante. Poetry is not meant to be a difficult, agonizing journey, ripping through miles of symbolism and a hundred different plot lines. I think that the level of thought the poem requires to get to its meaning is the level of thought the reader puts into it at that moment. If they read it quickly, just to read it, they won't get much out, but if they analyze and study the aspects and nuances of the work, they can get endless meaning from one poem.
Author: Billy Collins, who is still living today, has been called a writer's writer, in our text book's biography of him. They say that the novels he has written were not all that popular among the public, but were chosen for critiques. However, if his novels are like some of his poetry, I don't know why they wouldn't be popular.
Basic Passage: From "Books": "I see a figure in the act of reading, shoes on a desk, head tilted into the wind of a book, a man in two worlds..."
Correlation: Regrettably, I don't have as much time to read as I used to. If I do have some spare time to read, it is usually spent with a text book. Or if I did have time to start a book I refuse to do so, because I know I won't have time to finish it. But I do love a book! Whenever I am really interested in a book I feel the way that our poet is describing. "The wind of a book" is a great term. To be enveloped in a plot and fall in love with the characters is to be hit by this elusive wind. It is refreshing, invigorating. You come of of the wind knowing the effects of it, feeling the change in environment once you close the covers. Its something than non readers can only compare to a movie. But it really is a different thing.
Difficulty: I enjoyed this poem, and I was surprised that I knew a lot of what he was talking about.
Comedy: This poem is like a celebration of literature.
Tragedy: I didn't see anything tragic in the poem, unless you count the fact that the library was evacuated.
I agree with brook and Chiante's response. There is no clear meaning behind poems and the reader is suppose to take their own meaning from the poem. Each person has to be able to read and comprehend what they are reading and do this with out breaking the poem down.
I agree with sasuke. Reading is an ecscape . It gives you a feeling of ease. I don't get to many chances to read what I want to now but reading is a relaxation. It takes you places you otherwise may not go. But we must remember that reading is individualistic.
I agree with vcguitarist. Some people do read books just so they can escae from their everyday lives. I know that I do that. There are some days to where I just can't wait to get home so that I can read my Bible. That is really the only book that I do read. I love to read it, because you never know what you cn learn from it. I aslo like to try and see how it felt to live in Jesus' day. I would love to go back in time and walk around with Jesus through the cities.
Reading poems and books is a very tame subject. I feel that we gleam from them what we want, and what the author wanted. How can you read a poem and not see what the poet wanted us to see. We are that deep I think. I read books to escape and I read books to learn and understand. How can you read a book on surviving the concentration camps and not feel, or learn. You can't escape that!
i would like to draw a connection between sasuke and maggaly's comments. sasuke said that reading is an escape and maggaly said that a poem should not be tortured and analyzed, it should simply be appreciated. I think that when we get too far into analyzing poetry or any writing, we lose the appreciation for it and lose the ability to become lost in the writing. How can we allow ourselves to become enraptured in a work if we're so busy taking it apart?
I agree with Musicmans response. I myself also am a writer of lyrics. It seems like something as simple as just a starting line can take a song to a completely different area then first attempted. It seems like whenever you get the first line that everything else just seems to flow and before you know it you have written a complete song.
I agree with sasuke and Chiante how reading can take you to that "other world." You can get away from reality for a bit and from all the things that are bothering you.
I agree with Brook's response. You should just enjoy the poetry for what it is instead of trying to overanalyze it. I also agree that people have different interpretations. One piece of poetry could mean ten different things to ten different people. To get what the author intended the meaning to be is not the most important.The important thing is just to appreciate poetry.
I agree with Sasuke. Reading can be a great way for a person to lose themselves. When I was in junior high, all I ever did was read. I would spend hours on end just reading and never even noticed that I had been there that long. Now I barely have time to stop and breathe much less time to read a book.
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