I’m going to be honest this poem seems very deep to a person that might understand what’s going on. I on the other hand can’t really get into the flow of the poem, maybe it’s the poetic terminology that the author uses but I don’t really get what’s going on. There are some lines that honestly do give me great vivid images in my mind, but then there would be certain words or phrases being said in the very next line that would I guess through everything into a big ball of confusion. I did enjoy the line when the other said “Poetry should comprehend the earth” I thought that was very intriguing, but I wish Jean could comprehend Poetry.LOL!!!! Poetry to me is sort of a flow of rhyming or non-rhyming words like the Songs of Solomon. I will admit I’m ready to how to read and really comprehend this type of poetry that really talks in more complicated metaphors, and symbologies. But I guess with the level of ignorance I have towards this type literary poetry I’m not doing to well. Their some parts I really do enjoy and can sort of follow in my mind with for example, the great depicted illustrations of nature like the descriptive words used to illustrate the leaves that are blowing in the wind, do help me to see and feel what the author is feeling, but when I read lines like how the “Pacific salmons are making noise against dams of Yokohama” my mind is sent back into a whirlwind of confusion. How can salmon make noise against something? This sort of writing does discourage from trying to understand and read literature like this, because I feel only the elite minds of literature can understand writings like this, but just as we learn during our first reading in the class that’s not the case at all. We just all have to have an open mind in trying to learn and engage form this type of writing which I’m excited to do and learn.
"I feel only the elite minds of literature can understand writings like this, but just as we learn during our first reading in the class that’s not the case at all." AMEN!
ReplyDeletePoetry takes work. But it's most good poetry, like this poem, is not impenetrable. You already are getting some of it--the lines that you liked, for instance. If you like a line, you're getting something out of it anyway.
You'll never 100% "get" a poem. I certainly don't. But you can still get enough to make your effort worthwhile.