So in Tuesday's class we discussed nature. We talked about how the Bible talks about nature as well. Corrigan showed us pictures of different sceneries. There were pictures from sunsets to waterfalls. I guess the big focus of the class was to appreciate the beauty of what God created. We had to read the poem "State of The Planet" prior to class. There were many metaphors throughout the poem and at times maybe a little over bearing. It wasn't a very bad read though. It was very descriptive and such even though it was hard to comprehend all of it.
We ended up reading it aloud in class. Corrigan gave us a minute to pick a couple of lines to read and we basically chain read throughout. When someone was done the next person would just start reading their lines.
"To see them if the wind was dying the pale surface
even as she held it, to bring back the picture of what life
looked like forty million years ago: a honeycomb with mouths."
I really don't know why these lines stuck out to me. Maybe I like honeycomb, so that struck something in me. Maybe I'm more of a literal guy and actually thought about honeycombs with mouths. Corrigan has preached to us quite a few times about reading slowly and really taking in what the literature has to say. I think it is a challenge though to interpret what an author writes because we might not see it as they do. So if that is the case, then we totally don't get what they are trying to say and miss the vision they might be trying to show us. Maybe that's why poetry can be frustrating. It's like a regular person trying interpret a lawyer. Lawyers are paid to interpret and write things in way in which we aren't supposed to understand. Maybe other poets read one another's work and get it.
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