"My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life" by -Dame Edith Sitwell
When I read this quote, my interpretation is that when someone writes a poem, they are writing about their deepest thoughts and life experiences that resemble hymns in songs because a song have a certain beat and the heart beats. Therefore when you read a poem it makes you think, feel, and react to what the writer is writing about. You can not help but engross yourself in deep interpretation of what is written by the author. The reader uses graphic, syntactic, and semantic cues to interpret the poem using their background knowledge like what I just did to interpret the quote.
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I reflected on this quote for my reflection paper this week. It was beautifully written and I agree with your interpretation.
ReplyDeleteEvery one of us has a story that is completely our own by virtue of the fact that each of us is unique and has an ever expanding collection of experience that are particular to the lives we lead.
ReplyDeleteSimply put, no one is like you.
Poetry is the means which we can express ourselves, it’s a way to vent, and to make sense of the world by telling our stories in our own words. Poems are so powerful and it's even more powerful when we hear your students express themselves through poetry. I am not so good when it comes to writing poems but I have a best friend that writes good and powerful poems and she's also a cartoonist too. Thank you Toni for sharing this quote.
That is such a lovely quote. It's a very positive outlook which was hard for me to grasp at first because most of my poems were written in my emo state. Perhaps, I need to write happier poems someday. :) Anyway, I don't really see its connection to the chapter. I guess the authors put it there to encourage us or to prove the point that readers need to know the words and context in order to understand that one line. Which is an interesting concept still, btw.
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