Wednesday, April 23, 2014
"Ask Me" by William Stafford
I must admit "Ask Me" by William Stafford wasn't what I expected. My eyes and mind opened after reading, dissecting, and discussing the poem. Personally, I think it was a great idea to compare one's life to a river. Life is based off of time, obstacles, and experience (in my opinion). Time to a river is it's unstoppable flow. Two of the great obstacles that a river goes through are the weather and the ice that forms after cold temperatures. The overall experience comes from the obstacles that are hurdled, the places that a river flows through, and it's ending point when it collides to another river or lake.
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Interesting feed on this. Even though we read this poem in class a while back, being reminded of it makes me believe in everything you interpret it as. And I like how you also make the comparison of obstacles with whether change, mad I didn't think of that! Rivers definitely bring up good comparisons to life. If a river is just a strip of water following into a mass ocean, than problems throughout life, the flow of life, and the nature of things become unknown and spread out with a range of different outcomes. I guess that's what I can add onto this.
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