Having my say

At times I have to stop and think to myself while reading a book or story for a class. Teachers generally say there is symbolism in every book and sometimes multiple times on a single page. Has anyone ever stopped to think that maybe we are overanalysing things? Perhaps they wrote a book just to write a book. Maybe they just put a specific word there because no other words had the same effect that it did. This is nothing personal to anyone but I believe that most stories are just that, A STORY.

Whitman Poem

One of the first lines of Whitman's poem said a child becomes what it sees. In my case one of the first sights I must have had was of my father. Everyone says that I look like my older brother, Andrew. They also say that Andrew looks a fair amount like my father. Indirectly they also say that I look like my father. My mom once said that I even sound like my father. So in a sense, this short exerpt from Whitman's poem is half true. Not everyone becomes what they see, some like to stand out and be individuals.

Emily Dickinson Nature Poem

MAY-FLOWER. Pink, small, and punctual,
Aromatic, low,
Covert in April,
Candid in May,
Dear to the moss,
Known by the knoll,
Next to the robin
In every human soul.
Bold little beauty,
Bedecked with thee,
Nature forswears
Antiquity.
http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Emily-Dickinson/emily-dickinson-poems-nature-2.htm
If I read this correctly Emily Dickinson is writing a poem about her love for the natural beauty of a mayflower. She describes the appearance, general location, and how it appears during the months of spring.

Transcendental vs Anti Trans.

Personally I perfer the writing of the antitranscendental for the sole fact that their beliefs are correct. Nature is not always good, people are not always good ect. Obviously the transcendentalists were either not smart enough to recognize when someone was being bad or when nature had turned against them. Also the antitranscendentalist writings are easier for me to interpret and less annoying to read.