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There is a story told and retold in the Middle East about how to help someone who’s drowning.
The story goes that a man had fallen into a river. He was not much of a swimmer and was in real danger of drowning. A crowd of concerned people wanted to rescue him. They were standing at the edge of the water, each of them urgently shouting out to him:
“Give me your hand, give me your hand!”
The man was battling the waves and ignored their urgent plea. He kept going under and was clearly struggling to take another breath.
A saintly man walked up to the scene. He too cared about the drowning man. But his approach was different. Calmly he walked up to the water, waded in up to his knees, glanced lovingly at the drowning man, and said:
“Take my hand.”
Much to everyone’s surprise, the drowning man reached out and grabbed the saint’s hand. The two came out of the dangerous water. The drowning man sat up at the edge of the water, breathing heavily, looking relieved, exhausted, and grateful.
The crowd turned towards the saint and asked in complete puzzlement: “How were you able to reach him when he didn’t heed our plea?” The saint calmly said:
“You all asked him for something, his hand. I offered him something, my hand. A drowning man is in no position to give you anything.”
Let us remember not to ask anything of someone who is drowning.
Omid Safi at On Being. How to Reach Out to Someone Who Is Struggling
It’s worthwhile to click through to read this kind, wise and well-linked essay.
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Poetry 101
How to Analyze a Poem?
Poetry lectures -including every period- are one of my all time favorite lectures in my university life and they were also a favorite of mine during highschool as well. Over years, I’ve learned many different ways and tips to analyze a poem, how to understand the emotions and messages through the compact language of it. In this post I will share my tips with you. ✨
How I take notes about poems?
Our professor always gives semester worth poems in a book, I take notes on those papers only about the structure. However meaning analysis is much more indepth then structure analysis, so a small piece of paper is not enough for me. I use simple lined papers to analyze the meaning step by step and collect them in my folder. When I need them for a test or a final, I simply go to my folder, take my notes and open our course book, then revise. 🌸
First and most important step to analyze a poem is background knowledge. Since it can be really hard to understand period poems -like Victorian era, Renaissance, Romantics etc.- due to their language, it is crucial to learn something before even looking at the poem itself. We can divide this section in two. Information about the period the poem belongs and the information about the poet.
Who is the poet?
Does the poet has a problem or a different ideology related to politics, religion, family or personal?
What year the poem was written in what country?
Does the poem belong to a particular period or literary movement?
What are the key points about this period? (Emotions, Allegories, Messages and Symbolism)
After gaining enough knowledge to at least relate how the mood or theme of the poem can be, we start analyzing. Again, I tend to divide general analysis into two parts. Structure and meaning. I always start with the structure because it takes small amount of time considering the “meaning analysis”.
The Structure:
Style of the poem (lyric, epic…),
Time and passage,
Language (repetition, symbolism, allegories, imagery and figure of speech),
The speaker,
Characters and their meanings, backgrounds
The Meaning:
Mood and theme,
Tone,
Meaning of the title,
Message (what poet wants to give to you, based on political problems, religions, family or personal problems such as fear of death, depression etc.)
After analyzing the structure and the meanig we are almost done collecting our needed information to draw our conclusion. When I am done with analyzing, I start reading at least two essays on the poem. Different eyes can give different ideas so it is pretty important to be sure that you didn’t miss anything in your work. We must remember that everybody is different. One mind may think that the poem is depressing and dark however you can think that it is realistic and bright. It depends on the mindset. So there is no true or wrong way to drawing your own conclusion. To express your feelings properly, revise your informations you’ve collected during your analysis and express your thoughts about poem.
Small side note, poetry and drama professors LOVE sophisticated language. Try to use more complex vocabulary in your exams.
I hope this post will help you my sweeties! 🌸 ✨
ig:lilgryffindorstudies
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What doesn’t kill you gives you gives you a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms and a really dark sense of humor.
Qrow, Yang, Tai (via northforwinter)
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i want to be remembered ….
for my bravery
for my words
for my ideas
for my movements
for my emotions
for my cares.
i want to be remembered ….
as the girl who didn’t care
as the girl who stood for what she believed
as the girl who wasn’t idolized
as the girl who inspired
as the girl who didn’t give a fuck.
diandra (via poetrygrail)
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“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
— Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.
Neale Donald Walsch
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What people really want is to be fully themselves. They want the sense of aliveness, of being myself fully. But they want it through this, that, or the other. They don’t realize that nothing can give it to you because you already have it. And not only do you have it, you are it, you are what you’re looking for already. You don’t know that because you’re always looking somewhere else. You can only know that in the Now by aligning yourself with the Now and with the power that is there within you.
Eckhart Tolle (via spiritualitbe)
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I don’t even feel as if I’m the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I’m the center of anyone else’s?
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (via quotespile)
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There is nothing alive / about me.
Kristin Chang, from “Domesticity,” published in The Rumpus (via lifeinpoetry)
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Writing Prompt #71:
“My soul is built on destruction, my being is established on fire.”
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“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they’ve known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? … The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.”
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi
via @violentwavesofemotion
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I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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don’t work yourself to the point of a mental breakdown. give priority to your mental health. you are only a few steps away from completely losing your balance and breaking your mind. take one step back every time you take two steps forward. breathe. be mindful. see through life as it transpires moment by moment. learn when to rest. sleep is important. eating healthily is important. everything you do for the sake of your sanity is important. being kind to your mind is the best self-care there is. if there’s anything that’s lovely about you, it is your mind.
juansen dizon (via juansendizon)
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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
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I can’t wait to wake up in the morning and see the person I’ve been waiting my whole life to be with. Just to see the warm sun on half of their face and a soft glow on the other. The get up and go make them some breakfast and watch them wobble into the room. Drunk off sleep. Messy hair and messy clothes. To give them breakfast as they mumble something about caffeine. I can’t wait for that. For being able to wake up next to the person my whole life has trained me to be with and to know it’s them I’ve been waiting for.
Coral-vellichor (via coral-vellichor)
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