Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Dianne Ackerman notes

- Her words are very deep in her poems. There is an extra meaning to words that she writes and it is for the reader to comprehend the meaning. "Searching for a lighthouse in the breakwaters of our uncertainty." There are a lot of similes and metaphors throughout the poem.
- Her poems are about love and happiness yet there is a feeling of sadness in some of the poems.
- One of the poems is about apricots.
- In this poem it is going into detail on what an apricot is and how to eat it.
- the way she describes apricot is like it is important but it is small.
- I think that it is showing how simple but detailed an apricot is.
-   Poetry is most powerful where language fails.
- Language can capture emotions and sensations that are not human made.
-  There are many ways to read a poem and there is no right answer because it is how you as the reader understand it.
- poetry reminds us of the truths of life.
- a poem knows more about human nature than its writer does.
- there are many lessons to be learned from rapture, danger, tumult, romance and intuition.
- the power to description can turn things on paper into real life things.


1.) Do you feel that as humans we have lost our touch with reality because of things like technology?
2.) In your opinion how does your work influence younger generations?

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