Poems that you love

[RiverNotch]

taking a class on lit and society -- will post the poems we study here as much as i can. a few i've already read and love, particulary the basho, louise gluck, and conchitina cruz, and the posts may be a little redundant, but whatever.

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At first I thought I wouldn't like that poem, until the end. The meaning is quite touching. You say sadness, but also such low self esteem, getting out of the way of everything because it's more important, valuable. Wow, I'm rather impressed with how simply the poem expresses that.

I know right? That ending is all like: boom

I also see it as acknowledging the perfection of things without the intervention of oneself.

more the second reading for me. kinda like schopenhauerian ethics, or at least how i understand schopenhauer's ethics --- to be less convoluted, perhaps the zen ideal of active inaction. there's too little wistfulness with regards to what the speaker leaves behind that makes his nothingness particularly melancholic.

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also glorious dance of the stars and all that.