Getting the memories flowing

Poets are very intune with emotions, they have this ability to make each word drip with 3-5 different emotions making their work fall under so many different genres. W.S. Merwin's poem, "To Myself"  is one I beleived could pull the heart strings in any reader. It is one of those poems where after you finish reading it, there is some moment in your life that can be associated to the poem and you understand how the poet felt when he was writing this. To each reader there are different genres a poem falls under depending on the emotion the reader feels, to me it was a rememberance poem, a solitude poem, and a love poem.  The line " Even when I forget you I go on looking for you.."(Merwin) is that person remembering another and rekindling that sence of comfort and familiarity they had with the person they lost. It seemed to me to be almost a poem of how even after your true love is gone you still have that feeling like they are there and they never left you. Its a sad dose of reality when you start thinking of that special person you lost and how you begin to feel them around again and get a false sence of hope that they were there then remembering they are only a memory now. Thats what I felt the poet felt, a false sence that someone was there again only to remember they are no longer around. Its one of the only poems I think readers catch themselves thinking and feeling long before they read " To Myself" by Merwin.

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The Kite Runner has been probably the most intense and emotionally infused book I have ever read. Khaled Hosseini did an amazing job at putting every emotion into his writing; it was as if the reader could feel everything he felt during the intense journey the author endures. The ability to apply pure and raw emotion into ones writing is one that I have a problem with, which is why I found Hosseini’s book so intriguing. His writing style for this book was very powerful, and his ability to paint out scenes with words is one I envy, I am hoping by the end of this school year to be able to put at least half the emotion that Hosseini put into the Kite Runner, into my own work. The annotating process I used for Kite Runner which makes the reader notice the authors writing style, sure did its job. I found myself interested in being able to put that find of pure emotion and power into my own writing for the future. Overall Kite Runner was an eye opening and incredible book, and my favorite for the summer reading, I am very glad I got to read this. J