Sunday, March 28, 2010

poems and blogs

I very much enjoyed the poems that were assigned to us for the reading on Friday. I am usually not a huge fan of poetry but I really was captivated by these poems written by Mary Oliver. Maybe the way she used language to disguise a hidden meaning within one of her poems is what caught my interest. I also loved her use of spiritual ideas as well as nature themes throughout her poems. My favorite poem was probably the shortest one and originally that aspect is why it caught my attention but their is really a lot of meaning behind it in my opinion.
"The Uses of Sorrow
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift."

I love what is written between the parenthesis. It makes me wonder, why do I not write my dreams down on paper, because I seriously have some crazy dreams that no one in the world will ever know except me and the few friends that I tell. Anyways back to the poem, I feel like she was saying that sorrow brings grief and struggles but one can easily learn and grow and reap rewards from death and sorrow. It may seem like a "box full of darkness" but in it is a gift that may be even greater then the original thing that we lost. I believe this poem holds ideas about death as well as life lessons in general. Many times it seems that life can bring a gift along that does not look appealing but ends up being the greatest gift of all.

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