Caden
Poem Responses #1
Poem #1
The poem When You are Old by W.B. Yeats is a poem that talks of being older and reflecting on younger years. There is a feeling of encouragement to do things you enjoy while you are young and to follow your heart so that you won't regret it later. Later in the poem it speaks of love and and says that many people have loved the one that he loved but he loved her for her soul not just for her face and talents. But he also implies that he never shared his feelings out loud and got lost in the crowd of admirers. I think this is a good poem because I read it several times to try to decipher the true meaning.
Poem #2
The poem The Layers by Stanley Kunitz is about looking at life through several perspectives. It seems to me that he has lived a very hard life, but stays strong and keeps moving forward. There are certain phrases such as “roaming through wreckage” and friends that “fell along the way” that makes me think that he was living a life of suffering. Maybe he was an alcoholic or something like that, and many of his friends probably died from the same lifestyle. He also mentions that a voice told him to ”live in the layers not in the litter”. I think this is a powerful message, maybe from God or a higher power telling him to turn his life around and stop hurting himself. He says he is not done changing, implying that a positive change is in his future.
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