This piece of writing intrigued me; the ranges of very important issues that are covered are almost overwhelming: introspection, critical thinking, art and its importance to humanity, equality of sexes and race. I related to a lot of the issues the writer talked about, as a woman, an artist, an examiner of life, a human being.
The way she used light and darkness as a metaphor to say how we keep many of our sincere feelings, fears and desires hidden away was very clear to me, and they “have survived and grown strong through that darkness” (p36), until the day we shed light on them. As I said, before this piece is so overwhelming with the endless messages that it is sending to its readers, but what caught my attention was the philosophical part of this essay. When the writer mentioned the “unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling” (p37), it intrigued a flashback to my Philosophy class past semester where I believe it was Socrates, or Plato (one of those Greek geniuses, #patriotic pride) said that “the unexamined life is not worth living”, an ideology that I completely agree with and try my best to practice every day
I think he author uses poetry as an example of a mean to constantly examine life, introspect, analyze and evaluate the world around us- poetry is only one form of art- art is one of the best ways to accomplish that. We all have creativity inside us, even accountants or mathematicians, but we need to release that creativity out in the world thus benefiting us and the world.
