class discussion

I really enjoyed our class discussion on the peotry we have ben reading and how it has impacted us. I find it very interesting that we can each read the same poems and get something so different from them. The autohor had a particular purpose in mind when he wrote the poem, but I guess it is up to the reader how he or she interprets the peom. It seemed like so many people chose the poem from the mother to the son, but we each chose it for our own reasons. I think the idea of the poem was the same for many of us - never give up, keep on going, etc. but we each took that message and applied it to our lives in such different ways. That is one of the amazing things about writing and peotry - it can be applied to so many situations depending on who is reading it. It is open to the interpretation of the reader, and there really is no right or wrong way of interpreting it.