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Comment 1 of 1, added on December 3rd, 2007 at 1:26 AM.
I came across this poem, curiously enough, while taking a standardized
test. I had a limited amount of time to answer 60 questions on numerous
literary passages. And while I of course very much enjoy literature and
analyzing it as well, I was frustrated that I had to merely glance over the
passages or skim them at the most in order to have time to answer all the
questions sufficiently. But when I came to Pastan's Prosody 101, I was
compelled to slow my urgent pace of test-taking because her words demanded
more than a quick overview to get the just the main points. Pastan is
quite right in recognizing that poetry is life and life is poetry. We
write poetry because of our need to understand and explore our experiences.
We read poetry for the need to reflect and place in perspective life.
Poetry is then, with words, an incarnation of everything it means to be
human.
Melissa Goodman from United States
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I came across this poem, curiously enough, while taking a standardized
test. I had a limited amount of time to answer 60 questions on numerous
literary passages. And while I of course very much enjoy literature and
analyzing it as well, I was frustrated that I had to merely glance over the
passages or skim them at the most in order to have time to answer all the
questions sufficiently. But when I came to Pastan's Prosody 101, I was
compelled to slow my urgent pace of test-taking because her words demanded
more than a quick overview to get the just the main points. Pastan is
quite right in recognizing that poetry is life and life is poetry. We
write poetry because of our need to understand and explore our experiences.
We read poetry for the need to reflect and place in perspective life.
Poetry is then, with words, an incarnation of everything it means to be
human.
Melissa Goodman from United States