Inspiration

After reading "I Seek a Form..." by Dario, I wrote this poem....

Please feel free to comment on it and how it relates to the work we read.

The artwork screams controversy

Of dead and alive

Red and black

Bloody and bruised

Curving round and round and round with crisp edges

Knowing soft, smooth, delicate feelings

Should reach your fingertips

Worried the thorns will stain your skin

With blood and ink as is mine

You avoid the intentional pain

Knowing the sweet aroma is lacking in this piece

It distorts the imagination

Permanently bloomed

The beauty is completely lost

Yet found within my eyes

The piercing touch as the stem and petals are created

Allows the scent of iron to the air

This living picture will forever be mine  

Alfonsina Storni

We all read her work in class. Her poetry is touching to no end. I wrote my first paper in World Classics on this woman's poem,"I'm Going To Sleep." It was about her suicide and how she prepared herself for the earth excepting her. But her work touched some people even more then just us... Stoni influenced other writings all over the world. The one particular person she made an impression on that caught my attention was an artist. He is a Latin American artist that fifty years later used her influences in his wok. He liked to paint her face in his pieces as well as try to catch the emotion in which she preached so strongly in her own work. He appreciated her views and thoughts on life and that's why he felt it necessary to keep her name alive through his artwork. Hopefully she has influenced us as deeply as she influenced him. 

What I think about blogs...

Personally, I have never done anything like this blogging business and after this class I don't think I ever will again. I don't post on Facebook about my feelings,I don't like to discuss what's on my mind with a shrink, in fact, I don't tell most of my friends what my feelings are so why would I put them on the internet for everyone to see?... I don't like it. But it must be done.I completely understand why Dr. Reed is asking us to do this and it makes sense but I just don't feel it to be necessary for us to put it online. Having us dig a little deeper into our thoughts on the literature and extending our discussion among and outside the classroom will broaden our knowledge of the work.  I feel that keeping a weekly journal, or even a small paper about every piece we read would suffice to what's he's asking though. Actually, I feel that writing what our thoughts are on this literature through an online site is restraining us from fully understanding what others think of it. It restricts our discussion because it is not live. Interactions between peers verbally enhances social skills, conversation techniques and with a live, ongoing conversation the views can be more deeply discussed. Discussion through paragraphs on a computer is very limited. Thoughts are not flowing, words are not moving through the air, they are stagnate on a white page stuck inside a box. Open oral discussions would be best for the sake of the discussion itself. Well...this is what I believe anyways.