I have always loved poetry. I enjoy its versatility, the beauty and brutishness it may carry, the rawest emotions it expresses. Having English as my second language, however, I always believed that my love and understanding for poetry in a deeper sense would forever be limited to Hungarian poems. They are the ones I grew up reading and analyzing, my vocabulary is much wider in that language, too, therefore it only made sense to me. Thankfully, that changed with Activity 8.
I only know that summer sang in meA little while, that in me sings no more.
The way the last two lines are worded makes me feel touched and awed in a way I believed only poems in my own language could. It is a relief to realize, I can truly appreciate a poem and its imagery even if it was written in my second language.
2 thoughts on “Viktoria Borosan – Discussion 11”
Viktoria, in a way, if this was a story in book form you would be readying looking at the panels of the book and do a final page turn of the page. The entire time you are reading through the sonnet, it becomes crystal clear that the author in the sonnet truly loves his wife.
There are some poems that I do like and some are love poems because they are easier for me to understand.Its always to nice to see how other people view poetry and to you it seems as if you like it a lot because it was something you read when you were younger