Post 19

The beauty in the flowers and the smell of the air is what drives some people into writing about nature in poetry. For others it is what nature represents to them and their life that is inspiring. For me, nature is everything that represents life and death. Nature, rather plants in specific go through a cycle of emitting oxygen and taking in carbon dioxide. Plants live on the what we die upon, and we live on what they die upon. I think this cycle represents literature. People write about the things that have brought them pain or a death in some form and to the readers in gives them encouragement or life. Or the writer can talk about things that give them life, and it turn it shows the reader how to conquer death. The last poem assigned for Friday was called the Uses of my Sorrow. I think the authors simplicity exemplifies the simpleness of this cycle. And although the process has two steps, and her poem was very short, it represents something much more. And it makes me wonder if maybe the most complex things that humans could ever learn, are hidden in the smallest of ways. That maybe in this great Universe of ours the secrets of life and death are hidden away by one Creator, one simple solution. We read a poem by Robert Hass who wrote about nature and the truths of evolution. Maybe if Mr. Hass could see the truth in his own literature, he would see the fallacy of evolution. If only he could realize that a simple answer always solves a complex question. He would realize a Creator is the answer to the very nature he was writing about. I think what all these poems point to is the beauty that God has placed in front of us, and even though we see all the complexity in nature it points to the simplicity of one answer, one God.