P3 - "How to read a poem" by Guy Gagnier

P3 - "How to read a poem" by Guy Gagnier https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d Post your notes here. Include the chapter's title, its direct link, and its most relevant or meaningful points. en-us 2021-04-13 13:40:14 UTC 2021-04-17 17:39:26 UTC hello@padlet.com Mere Air, These Words, but Delicious to Hear https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1413846644 Carolina
Notes: words are just words, but we like them, nonetheless. Rhyming words gives people pleasure.

Main ideas: What is being said is different from the way it is said. There is beauty in certain combinations of words.

Cool quotes: « From syllable to word to phrase to sentence, the sound of poetry is the source of its primitive pleasures. » (this just sounded really nice).

« I feel the words creating a rhythm, a music, a spell, a mood, a shape, a form. » (again I just like how this sounds).

]]> 2021-04-13 20:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1413846644 The Immense Intimacy, the Intimate Immensity (Patrick) 24delagarza7884 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1414147749 Notes:
Poems are unique in the way that the feelings and knowledge obtained from them.
Some people can recognize poetry by what it makes them feel instead of what it looks like or what form it takes.
To some, poems are what they need to reveal their inner selves.

Main Ideas: To truly like poems and to truly experience reading one, you need to get immersed as much as possible.

Quotes I think are important/neat:
"There are people who defend themselves against being “carried away” by poetry, thus depriving themselves of an essential aspect of the experience. But there are others who welcome the transport poetry provides. They welcome it repeatedly. They desire it so much they start to crave it daily, nightly, nearly abject in their desire, seeking it out the way hungry people seek food. It is spiritual sustenance to them. Bread and wine. A way of transformative thinking. A method of transfiguration."

"I am shocked by what I see in the poem but also by what the poem finds in me. It activates my secret world, commands my inner life. I cannot get access to that inner life any other way than through the power of the words themselves. The words pressure me into a response, and the rhythm of the poem carries me to another plane of time, outside of time."]]> 2021-04-13 22:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1414147749 Help Me, O Heavenly Muse 24noyola6330 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1414190425 (Julieta Noyola)

Notes:

The basis of poetry branches out to many different depths touching topics that affect our feelings, passion, and state of mind
There is a sense of uncertainty as a poet publishes their work because the reactions of the readers cannot be controlled or predicted, therefore their work is only halfway done as they publish and will truly be finished until after this interpretive reaction
Poetry can take shape in diverse forms as long as it allows space for this process to occur, it then liberates the imagination on all sides to bond ideas and concepts into a literary art inspired by a balance between reason and madness

Major Ideas:

“The poet is one who often thinks by feeling.”
Poetry takes form between knowing craftsmanship and full concentration but the form itself does not come through the conscience but another force of invention within. There must be a knowledge of expression using such sentiment to describe moments and feelings in one's life, allowing a safe space for empathy to thrive through mutual connection.

Quotes:

“Henceforward, in using the word Poetry I mean both the controlled and uncontrollable parts of the art taken together, because each is helpless without the other.” - Robert Graves

“If any man comes to the gates of poetry without the madness of the Muses, persuaded that skill alone will make him a good poet, then shall he and his works of sanity with him be brought to nought by the poetry of madness, and behold, their place is nowhere to be found.” - Socrates

“Poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man.” - Shelley

Final Thought:

“Whoever calls out “Help me, O Heavenly Muse,” advertises a dependence on a force beyond the intellect.”

The artistry of a poem arises only with a reader to interpret the words using that imaginative perspective in order for the literature to reach its fullest potential.

]]> 2021-04-13 22:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1414190425 It Is Something of an Accident That You Are the Reader and I the Writer. 24ramirez6338 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1414461582 Marcelo Ramirez

Notes:
- Poetry lies in the meeting of the poem and the reader, not in the lines of symbols printed on the pages of a book.
- In order for poetry to function properly and deliver its message in full scale, it requires a writer and a reader. Without this, it's meaningless.
- Reading poetry calls for an active reader who must imaginatively collaborate with a poem to give voice to it. In other words, in order for poetry to fulfill itself, as in any other art, there must be two: the spectator and the creator, the reader and the writer.

major ideas:
"Poetry depends on the mutuality of writer and reader." This article talks about the relationship between writer and reader, and how, without it, poetry would not exist. Without the reader, it's simply words on a page and without the writer, it would never have been conceived.

quotes:
"The taste of the apple (states Berkeley) lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in a similar way (I would say) poetry lies in the meeting of the poem and reader, not in the lines of symbols printed on the pages of a book. What is essential is the aesthetic act, the thrill, the almost physical emotion that comes with each reading" (Borges).
"Poetry depends on the mutuality of writer and reader" (Hirsch).
"It is the joint effort of author and reader which brings upon the scene that concrete and imaginary object which is the work of the mind. There is no art except for and by others" (Sartre).

]]> 2021-04-14 00:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1414461582 Epic, Drama, Lyric: Be Plural Like the Universe! https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1414512174 Isabella Gonzalez
- Poetry has history and it keeps engaging fulfilling and transgressing that history.
-Epic or Narrative: Narrator speaks first person then the characters speak for themselves
-Drama: Characters do all of the talking
-Lyric: First person
-Poetry portrays a lot of mystery as well as relation tu music like dancing.
-Pessoa wrote poetry by using the 3 distinct bodies of work
- Poetry and Music are sister arts
Main Idea
- The 3 different ways to write poemas are using the 3 genetic types which are epic, drama and lyric.
Quotes
- "Poetry never loses its sense of sacred mystery."
-“Poetry everywhere is inseparable in its origins from the singing voice and the measure of the dance” (Language)
-"Poetry and music are sister arts. So are poetry and painting. It’s as if the eye and the ear were related through poetry, as if they had become siblings, or lovers."
-"private exchange that takes place between writer and reader"

]]> 2021-04-14 01:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1414512174 In the Beginning Is the Relation 24chapa6387 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1416081122 Lizy Chapa

Notes:
-Lyric poem: A passionate and concentrated form of communication between strangers. It is an intense, immediate, and unsettling form of literary discourse.
-A lyric poem is between speech and song.
-A poem delivers our spiritual lives because it gives us privacy, intimacy, interiority, and participation.
-Poetry has been an oral art for the majority of human history

Main ideas
-"The lyric poem may seek the divine but it does so through the medium of a certain kind of human interaction" (Hirsch).
This poem talks about what a lyric poem is and what it expresses. It mentions that it is a kind of human interaction: communication between strangers.
-The author talks about how the reader is a dynamic unfolding. I believe that by saying this he is trying to demonstrate that when a reader learns from the poet, it changes its way of thinking. When they feel a connection with the poem or at least feel empathy, then they form a relational process. A relation between an I and a You which is the poet and the reader. In other words, a lyric poem.

Cool quotes
- "The relationship between writer and reader is by definition removed and mediated through a text, a body of words" (Hirsch).
- "Reading poetry is a way of connecting—through the medium of language—more deeply with yourself even as you connect more deeply with another" (Hirsch).
- "Writing is not speech. It is graphic inscription, it is visual emblem, it is a chain of signs on the page"(Hirsch).
- "When I recite a poem [...] I become its speaker and let its verbal music move through me as if the poem is a score and I am its instrumentalist, its performer" (Hirsch).
- "The poem implies mutual participation in language, and for me, that participation mystique is at the heart of the lyric exchange" (Hirsch).

My opinion on the text
-I really liked the way the author first explained what a lyric poem is and then elaborated on that to express the interaction of a reader and a poet. I also liked his writing style and the way he communicated different types of messages throughout his paper. Overall, he had well-detailed thoughts and knew how to communicate them appropriately which was impressive.]]> 2021-04-14 12:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1416081122 Stored Magic https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1416774023 Nano

Notes:
- This poem talks a lot about how poems can captivate the audience in many different and unique ways.
-It also talks about how poems can give its readers different types of feelings and thoughts.
-How poems can change a people perception of things even their attitudes and emotions.

Main Ideas:
- The main idea of this poem is to show readers and the audience how impactful this types of writings can be and how they can have a huge impact on somebody's perspective and thoughts.
-Another main idea that is stored in this poem is that it talks about the "stored magic" that is inside poems and how they make a really big impact on a persons mind.

Quotes:
- "These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand,"
-"I believe such stored magic can author in the reader an equivalent capacity for creative wonder"

Opinion:
I think that in general this is a good poem because it gets the audiences ( at least mine.) attention throughout the whole poem because it is giving us the information on why we are so captivated by poems etc. Which in my opinion is something pretty interesting.

]]> 2021-04-14 14:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1416774023 Harmonious Sisters, Voice and Vers https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1416880391 Laura

Notes:
- The poem appeals to the ear and depends on the music for full effectiveness.
- The musical element is really important to poetry since the lyric never forgets its origins in "musical expression".
- The word lyric comes from Greek lyra or "musical instrument"
- English writers began writing lyrics for readers rather than for musical performances during the renaissance.
- The lyrics become an instrument that then becomes to feel like poetry itself.

Main Idea:
- The main idea of the poem consists of calling upon Polyhymnia (the muse of sacred song) and Erato (the muse of lyric poetry) to join together. This is because before the eighteenth century, writers made no distinction between melodic lyrics. The writer of the poem attempts to combine music and poetry across the words in his poem!

Quotes:
- "The space for writing as writing, for the poem as something to be read, opened up, for a written poem"
- "poetry would start to aspire to the pure condition of music."

Opinion:
I really liked the poem and the article. I think that the poem was simple yet beautiful at the same time since the meaning behind the words went deeper than what I anticipated. The article really analyzed the context in the poem and it gave me a lot of insight in why the author of the poem wrote what they wrote. Also, it helped me understand the connection between music and poetry and how they become one whenever you read a poem.]]> 2021-04-14 15:08:54 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1416880391 Give a Common Word the Spell 24gonzalez6421 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1417217043 Cordelia Gonzalez

Notes:
-Poetry can inspire and motivate people in magical ways, no other type of writing can. Poetry uses specific language so unique and so different.
-The author tells us that poetry belongs to no one and to everyone. Anyone can give a shot (''Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.'')
-Poetry does not only consist of the poet, but of the reader or listener. Poetry is all about impacting people in a way where they can really take in the poem.

Main Idea:
-In a way, Hirsch is trying to say that poetry adds a spark to our language, and without it that language is dead. Also, he is trying to show us that poetry brings us out of our comfort zones and refreshes the way we speak.
-''The lyric poem separates and uproots words from the daily flux and flow of living speech but it also delivers them back—spelled, changed, charmed—to the domain of other people.''

Quotes:
-Hirsch says ''There is a nice pun on the word spell in Smart's Horatian passage since, as tribal peoples everywhere have believed, the act of putting words in a certain rhythmic order has magical potency. The power can only be released when the spell is chanted aloud.'' This shows how strong words can be and the magic essence they pose.
-''The medium of poetry is language, our common property. It belongs to no one and to everyone.''
''The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.'']]> 2021-04-14 16:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1417217043 To the Reader Setting Out https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1417383665 Diego Rodriguez

Notes:
- The reader of poetry is a kind of pilgrim setting out, setting forth.

- The reader is what Wallace Stevens calls "the scholar of one candle.

- Poetry is a way of inscribing that feeling of awe.

Main Ideas:
- Reading is a point of departure, an inaugural, an initiation.

- Whitman often treats the reader as an equal, as if he and the reader share the same strange rhythm of life and pulsing emotions. He also dedicates his poetry to acquaintances, future readers and writers, and all outsiders.

Quotes:
- "Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder."

- "To you, he says, the following chants."]]> 2021-04-14 16:40:14 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1417383665 In Plain American Which Cats and Dogs Can Read! https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1419046570 Ulrich Fiehn

Notes:
- Poetry is the in-between of speaking and singing (mostly)
- verbal Art is different from the way that people actually speak, and it is intended to be that way
- There are poets who speak in typical American English, but manage to give the sensation of the grandeur of another language

Main Ideas:
- Even by speaking in the normal American English there is so much you can do to the tone and verbal construct of a poem
- Even when reading poems in old English and other languages, you always relate it to common speech, which isn't ideal, since the poems thrive the most being read in the way they were written.

Quotes:
"Poetry is not speech exactly—verbal art is deliberately different than the way that people actually talk—and yet it is always in relationship to speech, to the spoken word."

"In English verse, even in Shakespeare’s grandest rhetorical passages, the ear is always aware of its relation to everyday speech”

"W. B. Yeats called a poem “an elaboration of the rhythms of common speech and their association with profound feeling”]]> 2021-04-15 01:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1419046570 Metaphor: A Poet is a Nightingale https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1419356718 Mila Gonzalez

Notes:
- The transaction between the poet and reader depends on figurative language
- Poetry is made of metaphor
- Poetry bring back old fashioned knowledge and creates new thoughts which is why people view it as "restoring something old
- One of the main points of metaphor is the achievement of intimacy

Main Ideas:
- The main idea of the poem is on how metaphors are used to create a feeling of intimacy between the poet and the reader. He explains how the singing of the nightingale becomes a metaphor for writing poetry and the singing of the bird refers to reading it

Quotes:
- "Poetry is made of metaphor. It is a collision, a collusion, a compression of two unlike things: A is B."
- "The oldest English poetry, for example the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf and poems written in other old Germanic languages, has a number of poetic tropes that enable the poet to describe things at an angle, without naming them, and thus invite the listener to imaginatively construct them."
- "The meaning emerges as part of a collaboration between writer and reader."

]]> 2021-04-15 03:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1419356718 The Wave Always Returns sofiamenesesrodriguez https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1419443298 Sofia Meneses

Notes:
- A poem is like a wave because we experience it's flows.
- When we read a poem we participate in it's flow for example we flow with the rhythm.
- A wave is made up of composition and muscle and so is poetry.

Main Ideas:
- A poem moves from the eye to the ear, to the inner ear, the inner eye.
- There is not an answer to how someone should interpret a poem so rely on your intuition.

Quotes:
- "We create a space for fantasy, we enter our dream life, dream time."
- "It guides our reflections. It actualizes an intuition flowing deeper than intellect."]]> 2021-04-15 04:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1419443298 Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking 24llaguno63781 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1419909675 Eva Llaguno

Notes:
- Rhythm creates a pattern of yearning and expectation, of recurrence and difference.
- Rhythm is all about recurrence and change. It is poetry’s way of charging the depths, hitting the fathomless.
- Rythm has a large effect on readors, meaning, it enlightens the readers involvement causing them to remember the poem.

Main Ideas:
- Rhythm is all about recurrence and change.
- Rhythm creates a pattern of yearning and expectation, of recurrence and difference.
- To the overall tone of a poem, rhythm is essential.
- Hirsch not only highlights the rhythm of heartbeat but also highlights the importance of offbeat.
- The rhythm of the emotion determine the texture of the sounds.

Quotes:
- "Rhythm would lift the poem off the page, it would bewitch the sounds of language, hypnotize the words into memorable phrases."
- "This is a poem of poetic vocation."
- "Rhythm is a form cut into time" ]]> 2021-04-15 07:29:19 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1419909675 The Immense Intimacy, the Intimate Imensity 24trevino6410 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1420730404 Elisa Treviño

Notes:
-Poems aren't only emotions, they are expiriences
-The experience one gets from poetry you can't find anywhere else
-The spiritual life want to be put into words, the physical life wants to become spirit
-The point of poetry is to get carried away
-The people who like getting carried away by poetry eventually find themselves becoming poets
-Poetry can be recognized by the physical intensity felt in response to the text
-You have to read poetry with all your being
-The poem makes you see knew things, but it also makes you find things within yourself

Main Ideas:
-Poetry embodies both the spiritual and the physical into words which make you see new things and find things within yourself
-To fully understand poetry you must let yourself be taken away by it.
-Poetry has such a unique experience which leaves you craving for more

Quotes:
-"The experience of reading poetry and the kind of knowledge it provides cannot be duplicated elsewhere."

-“For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)—they are experiences,”

-"There are those who honor the reality of roots and wings in words, but also want the wings to take root, to grow into the earth, and the roots to take flight, to ascend."

-"I am shocked by what I see in the poem but also by what the poem finds in me."

]]> 2021-04-15 12:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1420730404 Heartland 24astudillo6382 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1420992234 Cassia Astudillo

Notes:
--Poems have been written from a. great distance to find you
-Poems are like dialogue from one person to another
--People write poems with the hope that someone out there will get it's message

Main ideas:
-Poems are like a message in a bottle, and we are the recipients of these poems
-- Since poems are adressed to the people who find them, you are the person it was written for if you find it.

Quotes:
"A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the—not always greatly hopeful—belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something."
"At a critical moment, a seafarer tosses a sealed bottle into the ocean waves, containing his name and a message detailing his fate. Wandering along the dunes many years later, I happen upon it in the sand. I read the message, note the date, the last will and testament of one who has passed on."

Opinion:
I agree with this article and I also believe that the author has a really nice writing style, it is very fluent and clear to understand. The metaphor/simile of comparing poems to a message in a bottle was really nice and made a lot os sense to me.

]]> 2021-04-15 13:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1420992234 Stored Magic https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1421032266 Adelina Coronado
Notes:
- Poems give people the freedom of interpreting words and past experiences of someone
- There is not a right or wrong answer as to what a poem means
- Poems can change a person and truly make them feel involved

Main ideas:
- Poems are made for a person to relate and interoperate therefore leaving an effect of "stored magic"
- There is no right or wrong answer to the meaning of a poem
- There is no poem you can not relate to

Quotes:
"I believe such stored magic can author in the reader an equivalent capacity for creative wonder, creative response to a living entity."

"“These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand,”"

]]> 2021-04-15 13:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1421032266 Heartland 24ramirez6327 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1421113417 Ana Sofi Ramirez
Notes

- no poem affects a person the same way it does to another

- like messages that are placed in bottles and washed up on shores, poems too addressed to its finder

- "“Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the soul.”"

- “Poems in this sense, too, are under way: they are making toward something.”

Main Idea

We do not find and choose the effect poems have on every individual person.

]]> 2021-04-15 14:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1421113417 In the Beginning Is the Relation https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1421163864

Paloma Salazar

Notes:

-A lyric poem is a passionate and concentrated form of communication between strangers. It is an intense, immediate, and unsettling form of literary discourse.

-A lyric poem is not the same as song lyrics, although they are often in lyric form.

-A poem enhances our spirituality because it gives us freedom, intimacy, interiority, and participation.

-Poetry has historically significantly impacted the world for a long time.

Main ideas

The poem is mainly about expressing what a lyric poem is, and the importance of the relationship between the reader and the writer.

-The author focuses on how the reader is a dynamic unfolding. The author is trying to prove that the reader’s perspective or way of thinking changes when he/she reads the poem and experiences some kind of attraction to the text. The feeling of empathy generates a form of relationship which is between an I and a You or also known as a lyric poem.

Quotes

-"The lyric poem may seek the divine but it does so through the medium of a certain kind of human interaction" (Hirsch).

- "When I recite a poem [...] I become its speaker and let its verbal music move through me as if the poem is a score and I am its instrumentalist, its performer" (Hirsch).

- "Reading poetry is a way of connecting—through the medium of language—more deeply with yourself even as you connect more deeply with another" (Hirsch).

- "Writing is not speech. It is graphic inscription, it is visual emblem, it is a chain of signs on the page"(Hirsch).

-- "The relationship between writer and reader is by definition removed and mediated through a text, a body of words" (Hirsch).

- "The poem implies mutual participation in language, and for me, that participation mystique is at the heart of the lyric exchange" (Hirsch).

My opinion on the text

-I really enjoyed the amount of detail that the author included in his explanation. I agree with his way of thinking and have developed a strong understanding of lyric poems. I feel that the author does a great job covering several areas of the topic, and having strong reasonings behind every thought.

]]> 2021-04-15 14:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1421163864 Winged Type https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1421283791 Sarah Kim

Main Ideas

A poem is something to look at as well as recite and write
This technique of bringing literature and visual sensations together is very ancient
Based on how the poem is presented, it can give off different feelings and create more vivid imagery.

Notes

Pattern Poems in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and in most of the modern European literatures; Chinese pattern texts; Sanskrit citra kavyas and other Indic texts
Moore’s symmetrical stanzas look as if written with a typewriter; it is aesthetically pleasing to look at.
In addition, the graphic form and verbal music can pursue another emotion.

Quotes

"The slanting lines of Apollinaire’s poem create the sensation of rain running downward across a windowpane."

"The sound of the unpunctuated lines in French creates an incantatory murmuring that evokes the sadness and melancholy of a rainy day in Paris."

"The poem appeals to the eye. It has a shapely dimension and thus relates to the plastic arts, especially painting."

]]> 2021-04-15 14:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1421283791 To the Reader Setting Out 24caballero6432 https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1428519599 Mauricio Caballero

Notes:
- Poems send you on a pilgrimage
- Every part can fill you with awe
- A poem can be directed to the reader

Main ideas:
- Poems are a journey of many parts
- Any part of a poem can connect to someone with such awe that they get captivated and want to stay in that part.
- Poems can address the reader as an eual in order to have a better emotional connection.

Quotes:
"the whole world blooming at hand, the awakened mental state that takes us through our senses from the least insect to the highest power of love. We can scarcely turn the page, so much do we linger with pleasure over the ecstatic beginning."
"Poetry is a way of inscribing that feeling of awe. I don’t think we should underestimate the capacity for tenderness that poetry opens within us."
"I am completely taken by the way that Whitman always addresses the reader as an equal, as one who has the same strange throb of life he has, the same pulsing emotions."]]> 2021-04-17 17:26:42 UTC https://padlet.com/guy_gagnier/dehd092c4hotgn2d/wish/1428519599