Tonight's first students get some poetry, via two poems that I love to pair for my advanced learners: Mary Oliver's "The Summer Day" and James Wright's "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota".
Also, @LiseL, my mall had a new gift today: a lovely display dedicated to the originator of a wildly popular 18th-Centurt version of Beauty and the Beast!
I truly never know what I'm going to discover in it next. #Poetry #Literature
That's the beauty of the piece. The line can be read so many ways, but is often interpreted as one of dawning regret for everything *before* this point, *before* this retreat to the farm and through it, communion with nature and what matters most.
Thank you for your presence with it. Thank you for sharing what it stirred up in you. ๐๐ค
I could (if I only would) write a whole book of poems that steal that enigmatic last line. ๐ ๐ฌ ๐
@MLClark @LiseL Thank you so much for listening. It's a grand poem, because it grabbed me.
There's an anarchic Banksy like flare to it all, like painting a beautiful picture only to shred it.
Perhaps its the fact that all things are impermanent that grant a special value to all forms of art?