Second Hand Experience.
Vera Pavlova, wrote a poem called “To converse with the greats” and it’s a very interesting piece that I would like to share with you, the reader, and give my own insight on. I also ask after reading my own insight you create a post and give your opinions on the poem as well. In the first two lines, it says “To converse with the greats by trying their blindfolds on;”, to me it means that sometimes people try to match up and understand the greats rather than surpassing them. They blind themselves with the set ideas that what the greats achieved are the limit of that subject. The next two lines say, “to correspond with books ,by rewriting them”. I think this also goes to show that the person doesn’t try to dive deeper with these books and rather they merely rewrite them. I think this could also show how the author might want the readers to actually live the reality of any subject that they are interested in, rather than just read about it. For example, maybe you are reading about science but you will never truly understand it unless you experience it for yourself, maybe doing some experiments. In the last line, “in the solitary confinement of the universe.”. The sentence doesn’t properly end. I think this could really just send it home how it tells you that reading this poem isn’t going to help you understand the world and you should try and live it yourself. Not giving you the answer that the author has, rather making you try and find it yourself.
