Well, let me start off saying that this was the most difficult reading I've had to do this semester. I've never been a fan of poetry and anything to do with the environment. Yet after reading this poem I must admit that it did intrigue me. What I really enjoyed about the poem was how effortless the author was able to illustrate everything he was attempting to get across. Even though four pages of poetry was very tough to stay focused on, my mind kept coming back to one sentence in the first stanza, "Inside the backpack, dog-eared, illustrations, A book with the title Getting to Know Your Planet." And it is this sentence that I want to touch upon.
The Backpack- we use backpacks to store things and to transport things. It can be perhaps a representation of our minds, how we can keep vast amounts of information and be able to recall that information in an instant.
Illustrations- what the author is talking about here is our interactions with the world around us.
The book Getting to Know Your Planet- this one struck me the most. We all know about the basics of the planet, like 70% of the Earth is water and the other 30% is land mass. but what I'm talking about is going deeper, about the stuff that truly means something to our planet, like water purification, greenhouse emissions, and climate change (or global warming).
I like how you kind of dissected one little part of the poem. Of course, it was kind of the part that kept the whole story going. Very cool (:
ReplyDeletewhen I started reading the beginning of your blog I had to double check to make sure i wasn't on my own, because it was almost identical to what I said. But I agree that I have never been a fan of poetry, but i somewhat enjoyed this poem, to a very small extent haha
ReplyDeleteI basically just glanced at that part of the poem. All the rest when I didn't understand is the stuff I thought about. I never even thought about dissecting this part, nice job!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your feedback and your interpretation. I love reading other people's post and seeing what they got out of it and to see if it is similar or drastically different than mine. I too thought of a "backpack" as you did. I think it is an instant place where we can unzip and pull out anything that we need. it can be as big or as small as we make it to be.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is really interesting (In a good way).
ReplyDeleteThat book you talked about is really not to specific with the thing we want to know. There Are times when I dont really understand what exactly the book is trying to say. looking deeper and actually trying to get a meaning is how you get a better understanding of the author.