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Yes, indeed my friends, poetry interpretation is one of the hardest things a student in English IV would always encounter. Its a difficult task, although our teacher always encourage us to do poetry interpretation and reading literature as our free time pastime. During my elementary days, such poems are easy to understand and interpret because they are too childish for our minds. But now, as I am exploring the hidden trails of language and literature through the efforts of our dear teacher, I've realized that poetry understanding is not a joke to be taken for granted. It is like solving a mathematical problem without the aid of a calculator or the aid of a given formula. Truly dreadful but challenging, I have learned to contain myself in poetry reading and understanding.
Like the poem above entitled "Loneliness", it is a very hard-to-understand poem example. The hardest part of understanding it is the positioning of the letters, because it both illustrates something that exists in the poem and it symbolizes something that also exists in the poem.
One great illustration is the letter "l" above the word "iness", it shows to the readers that the letter "l" is a lone figure in the poem, truly symbolizes the essence of loneliness. The word "one" also explicitly illustrates the loneliness described in the poem. For me, the poem merely shows loneliness in an indirect way. According to most of my batch mates, the poem structure also inscribes us the word loneliness. The phrase "a leaf falling" also gives us a better understanding of the poem. Leaf describes one leaf, solitary and alone. It is the only living proof that the plant is alive, because of the leaf symbolizes life of the plant.
The word "falling" plays an important role in the meaning of the poem, because the leaf didn't fell, for it is falling, struggling to hold on and resist the inevitable power of gravity. Eventhough the lone leaf is embraced by the thought of being alone in the wilderness, it struggled to hold on and staying alive clinging until the right time comes for it to fall on the ground, facing death and decomposition.
Anyway, the poem has a meaning for me. I, for example, is the leaf in the poem. I am falling because all of my fellow leaves have left me and yet added by the misery brought about by loneliness, but still I struggled to survive and cling for a living journey for the rest of my life.
Like the poem above entitled "Loneliness", it is a very hard-to-understand poem example. The hardest part of understanding it is the positioning of the letters, because it both illustrates something that exists in the poem and it symbolizes something that also exists in the poem.
One great illustration is the letter "l" above the word "iness", it shows to the readers that the letter "l" is a lone figure in the poem, truly symbolizes the essence of loneliness. The word "one" also explicitly illustrates the loneliness described in the poem. For me, the poem merely shows loneliness in an indirect way. According to most of my batch mates, the poem structure also inscribes us the word loneliness. The phrase "a leaf falling" also gives us a better understanding of the poem. Leaf describes one leaf, solitary and alone. It is the only living proof that the plant is alive, because of the leaf symbolizes life of the plant.
The word "falling" plays an important role in the meaning of the poem, because the leaf didn't fell, for it is falling, struggling to hold on and resist the inevitable power of gravity. Eventhough the lone leaf is embraced by the thought of being alone in the wilderness, it struggled to hold on and staying alive clinging until the right time comes for it to fall on the ground, facing death and decomposition.
Anyway, the poem has a meaning for me. I, for example, is the leaf in the poem. I am falling because all of my fellow leaves have left me and yet added by the misery brought about by loneliness, but still I struggled to survive and cling for a living journey for the rest of my life.
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