The creative aspect of reality is one that has been addressed on in so many forms.
From music, to art, to stories and ofcourse it's also been a muse if poetry.
The concept that there may or may not be another state of being that is the real state of being while we're all in a dream or that all we may think, claim and had proven right could just actually be wrong. Simple thoughts that makes one to question his or her reality, for yes... Reality is individual.
Anyways, I'm not here to give you a lecture in the concepts and folds of reality but rather I'm here to give my thoughts and analysis about a poem based in this prompt.
And our poem for the day is....
The stellar realms their laws obey
regardless what our scopes display
or how we wriggle facts around
in outer space, on earthly ground,
to match what present pundits say.
For truth is truth whate'er the sway
of those who mark our mortal stay
while in reality are found
the stellar realms.
With reaches deeper than one may
yet fathom in the mind’s array—
enlightenment beyond the bound—
but oh delusion' s sleep is sound—
inhere within and faraway
the stellar realms.
This lovely poem is written in the form of a rondeau, a poem that has 10-13 lines, has 2 rhymes and the first words of the first paragraph is used to end the last paragraph.
Miss White wrote this beauty after taking a look at dead Casanova's picture from space.
The poetry's form was well written, although a paragraph is divided into 5 lines just so dey may rhyme. Upon closer inspection, it'll be noticed that the paragraphs are sentences divided into multiple places.
Using her exquisite skill, Harvey proclaims how stars and space has its own reality, its own rules to follow, no matter what may think we know about it, our reality may just be wrong.
She then goes to say in the second paragraph
truth is truth
I took this as an advice, that the truth is always just that, the truth.
No matter the sway, no matter public opinions. The truth wouldn't change.
I love the simplicity and briefness of the poem.
She doesn't dance around the subject but instead goes straight to the point.
Attacking everything about space, how we don't know anything as it isn't our realm.
You don't have to question everything, just don't accept everything too, your reality may be wrong😀
Although this is just my take on the poem; tell me what the poem made you feel in the comments, and if your feeling up to the chase, you can write your own poem analysis post 😃.
And now, our...
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