Friday, March 27, 2009

March 27- Poetess Archive


"Oh! Happy child in thy fawn-like glee!
What is remembrance or thought to thee?
Fill thy bright locks with those gifts of spring,
O'er thy green pathway their colours fling;
Bind them in chaplet and wild festoon--
What if to droop and to perish soon?
Nature hath mines of such wealth--and thou
Never wilt prize its delights as now!"

The poem, Child with Flowers, can represent the youthfulness of children and the beauty of nature that it is written about. Yet the poem is a suggestion for children to live in the moment, but will children be the ones reading this poem? The audience of the poem is adults who no longer live in the moment, people who focus on the future and what is to come. When delving deeper into the poem, you can see the poet telling the audience to slow down, and enjoy the smaller things in life, like nature.

Is text a visual experience or an auditory experience?
-I think that a text can be both a visual and auditory experience. You read a novel but some times read it out loud to get the full affect of the authors intentions. When reading poetry, you read it out loud to hear the patterns yet visualize the images the poet described.

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