Some humor for you.
Emily Dickinson's "[The Brain-is wider than the Sky-]" is a wonderful reflective poem that epitomized the way every child is taught from the moment we enter school, until our schooling is complete. Why bring it up, then, you may ask? I feel that we often forget how phenomenal our minds truly are. We become so burdened with our majors and the worlds that we lose sight of our ability to completely vanish into a multitude of our own created worlds. Daydreams are definitely one thing, but I often envy those who escape to madness. Would't that be nice? A little tromp into insanity to play with the all too real monsters? Ay, but how to get back? That is always the questions isn't it?
Still the brain is a lovely thing and I worry that college sometimes constrains it. We are at a Liberal Arts school, and it tries to expand our learning into many different areas, but how many of you know how to build an engine? Fix a toilet? Install a ceiling fan? When I was young, those ideas used to frighten me, for I wanted to be of the learned. Now, when I find myself working on such things, I find my brain wonders to beautiful places that I cannot achieve through any amount of schooling. It is like meditation.
This causes me to pause on this poem. It is simple, and relatively straight forward. The poem only seeks to remind us that are minds are the gifts of God, and thus have the potential the see into eternity. The title of this post is a hope that schools will put simple poems up, that are reminders, more than inspierers. We were inspired to make it into college, now lets be reminded that the universe is vast, and our minds should always be thirsty for more.
Works Cited:
Booth, Alison, and Kelly J. Mays. The Norton Introduction to Literature. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2011. Print.
Instead of getting it on with a lady, one should write a poem about it instead. Nice. I often feel like my creativity isn't practical sometimes, just literary. And what you said about getting lost in the mind is all too true. Scary. I wonder if insanity is fun in the long run?
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