UNIT 3-POETRY
Reflect on the meaning of each of the following quotes, and
what the poet may be trying to tell us about poetry:
Not the assertion
that something is true, but the making of that truth more fully real to us
~T.S. Elliot
Hundreds of things
coming together at the right moment. ~Elizabeth Bishop
T.S Elliot meaning: The poet is trying to say it is not saying a fact/belief that makes it true, it is making the truth more understood. For example, you could say time travel will happen, but it is not that statement, that is true, it is taking action to make it a reality. What he/she is trying to say in that quote is that poetry is not used to say something is true, but to actually make that "something" true, to make the assertion a reality.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Bishop meaning: The meaning of the quote is a perfectly timed coincidence. Where many things come together at a perfect time to create something wonderful. What she may be telling us about poetry is that under all those stanzas and verses, there is a diverse collection of things that come together at the right time to create the poem.
Gwendolyn Brooks meaning: The meaning of the quote is that poetry is the pure essence of life. What she is trying to say about poetry is that it is every single thing in life, but boiled down/distilled to its pure form. That poetry is essentially life but distilled to its essence, which is to say that poetry is the meaning of life.
1) Poetry isn’t something that just supports an assumption or a belief or simply says the reality. It’s something to make a reality more meaningful. For example, a story could be told by normal words. However, if someone layout the same words in way which they rhyme, it makes the story more meaningful and easier to understand.
ReplyDelete2) Poetry is hundreds of ideas, words and rhymes coming into one’s mind which results in something like a poem.
3) Poetry is life purified. By this, maybe she means that poetry is what gives life a taste and how life would be meaningless and boring without it.