Monday, December 29, 2008

Assignment - Poems

I love Maya Angelou's Touched by An Angel. I think in this poem there are two people who fall in love each other, but they can't tell anyone their love in public. From my point of view, it includes two significant points - love and taboo. First of all, why"love?" It's obvious that in the first line of the second stanza "Love arrives." shows the point. When someone falls in love, they really don't care about the morality in the society. Because love is everything, they need their lovers not anyone else. If we have love, we will be strong to fight anything. In the same stanza, the sixth line, "love strikes away the chains of fear," love will make us be free from all obstacles.

Moreover, where is the "Taboo"? In the first stanza, "exiles from delight" means they can't show their true feeling to their lovers, unless "until love leaves its high holy temple" they just talked about their love under the darkness. That's why the "Taboo" comes from and this is the only way to set them free. Solving this problem is only love. All they have to do is to be brave to face their ecstasies.

Why do I be interested in this poem"Touched by An Angel" ? I have two reasons.
First, I also meet the same feeling right now and I really have no guts to solve this problem. I can't understand why people are so strict to me that I can't control my emotions. I totally catch the author's mind if my explanation about this poem is right. Sometimes I just run away when I meet such this kind of problem, I'm a coward I guess.
Then, my situation is in the blind alley and I deserve it. I have no complaint about this thing because it's totally about my imagination which makes me feel upset. Taboo might be the best description, so I don't dare to cross this line. I know I can't but I want to be free. How should I do? Be brave? Yeah, it must be kidding and if it's true, my parents will kill me. Therefore, the only thing I can do is to hide my emotions.
I'm so envious that the author can liberate from this invisible jail. Perhaps this poem just wants to bring us courage to rich our spirits.

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