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sabertooth1217
UPN Boycotter
Joined: 21 Jun 2003
Posts: 11484
Location: Texas
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| Triam_Paris wrote: | | yeah, I read The Scarlet Letter my sophomore year. I just got it out again to write that last paragraph... you can use that if you want. but anyway. I hate Hawthorne! That book was one of the worst tortures ever, so... sorry you have to go through it now. It's a good piece, I guss, but seriously. Hawthorne *blech* can't stand him. |
I know how you feel, I hate it with a deep passion, and I have to read it as a junior. I'm not going to use that paragraph because my English teacher would know that it wasn't me.
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Sam Kenobi
Not a Duke
Joined: 13 Jun 2003
Posts: 10373
Location: The 'Verse
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| Thu Nov 11, 2004 12:30 am |
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What message do you guys get from this poem? I have my own ideas, but I'd like to hear some others...
"To See the World in a Grain of Sand" by William Blake
To see the World in a grain of sand
And Heaven in a wildflower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an Hour
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marimbaplayer
Johnny
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Posts: 525
Location: second star to the right and straight on till morning
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I think this poem is talking about seeing turning into insight. That through our eyes, we take in the world around us and make it whatever we want it to be. It's also about looking at one thing and being able to see everything else larger through or in it. That if you can see a wildflower as heaven, you would be able to manipulate time, in a way. If people stop and notice the little beauties that nature and the world seem to create just for people to stop and notice, maybe people wouldn't be so busy with things that don't even matter. It's full of paradoxes, the major one being for the human mind to grasp anything that is infinite, especially physically holding it. Here's another quote from william blake (also about perception) that I really like. "If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would be seen as it is, infinite." Oh, these two couplets are actually part of a bigger poem called "Auguries of Innocence". It's really long so I'm not going to post it here, but it's cool. Here's a link to it. http://plagiarist.com/poetry/5804/
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Starbuck
faster...
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Posts: 8715
Location: between chaos and melody
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| Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:38 pm |
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I think its about how you hold life in respects.
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