Thursday, February 9, 2012

I would like to write about "Engine" from the City Eclogue because it really stuck out to me.  This poem is scattered around, essentially by space being placed in the middle of many lines as well as above and below them.  The poem has the words, "Tear you apart" as a lone sentence.  This really tells us that this poem is touching on the point that sometimes we are all over the place internally, or torn apart. 

It talks about how "in the mirror     scatter" which once again seems to be talking about how it is within ourselves that we find most of the conflict in our lives.  Even conflict outside from without, we can often attribute to issues within.  I think that this is very useful to know, because when we are going through our daily lives we can so easily forget that it is us that has most control over the very life we are living.  If we find ourselves in conflict, as we almost daily do, then we can simply look in the mirror and adjust our perceptions of the world to  better accommodate the circumstances we have found our self in. 

This poem says, "strip you down     throw things into gear you didn't know would shift".  How cool is that?? This line says that sometimes life pushes us to places we didn't think we could go.  Things happen that we could have never predicted were possible.  Cliche, yes, but how astounding an idea are most cliche things?  I believe that the best advice we can ever get is to not be set aside by the fact that things are cliche.  The reason they are cliche is likely because they are true and have been said so often.  In regards to the poem, and this line in particular, I think it would be a good idea to address the fact that life has this power, or nature, if you will.  When we are stuck or in a place we wish we hadn't gone, we can have 'faith' in the fact that we may be capable of things we cannot consciously perceive at that time.  Always go forth with the belief that when you step, the ground will be there to catch you. 

This poem as a whole may not be meant to derive these ideas, but I think that it does non the less.

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