“The true poet knows life is laced around pain. Human life is a fashioned for tragedy.” -Elli’s father, I Have Lived a Thousand Years, Chapter entitled “Ghetto”, p.45 (April 18-May 21, 1944)
I choose this passage because while I was reading it stuck out to me the most. I think that it stuck out to me the most because when Elli had a pretty good life she was making poems about pain. When her father said that Elli is a true poet for writing about how life isn’t always easy it showed that maybe Elli was strong enough to face life and make it through difficult situations no matter how hard it got. I wonder what kind of pain poems Elli wrote. Was it deep thought pain? I know that they were really good since her teacher made her read her poem in front of an audience.
Some connections that I have toward this quote is the feeling of pain. Real pain. Everybody has or will feel the real meaning of pain, it may come next week or next year but it will come. I know I have felt pain before and Elli writing about pain makes me wonder if what I felt was real pain. Was the pain that I felt the same as the pain that Elli was feeling? Was it the same that Elli was writing about? What do you call pain? Have you ever felt pain?
While I have never read her books, I'm guessing that her pain poems were probably very realistic from an adult standpoint and that's why her teacher liked it so much. Yes, I think it's interesting to consider this idea of "real pain." Sometimes I hear about parents losing their kids and I think about that happening to me and I wonder how they still go on and how I'd still go on. I think everyone's felt pain but the context is key. My life is really hard right now for all kinds of reasons outside of work but then I imagine other people dealing with tragedy like the victims in Boston or West and I can't feel that sorry for myself. Then I will tell people what's going on with me and they'll feel incredibly bad for me because, I think, they can't imagine the kind of "pain" I'm dealing with. I guess so much of it is just context.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. I think that it does depend on the context that describes "real pain". I do agree with you that there are people out there that are going through a rougher time than most of us and we can't really feel that sorry for us.
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