2nd Humalit Blog

The poem reminded me about the events that took place when I was still a child when things past by so fast. A moment you are a child who is carefree but now you are a grown man who has everything to worry about. Leaving the childhood is somehow similar to what the poem is trying to express or argue. The poem was expressing its arguments that leaving is something that is not to be sad about or mourned. Leaving is only a small part of life and does not mean it is the end. To me I associated my childhood memories to now. Thinking about the life I had when I was a child and leaving it was such a sad experience. Though the poem was targeting it to a lover, in my case I was targeting it to my life when I was a child. Being a child meant that you are always dependent and everything just seems to be a perfect world. Leaving in that state meant that the entire perfect world is gone. Though leaving that state was a sad moment, it does not mean that it was the end. In fact leaving it made myself very strong and much more independent. So there is nothing to be sad about growing up even though times are tough these days. These memories of child hood will comeback someday and just by simply remembering those days will surely make everything better. Leaving childhood will not make me only a better man but will make me also become a better person to others. One example is just by having fun with children. This kind of experience could help myself relive the past childhood experience. Also my childhood experience could make stronger bonds with others and help myself be part of children’s lives. I may have left my childhood but I can be part of others childhood to help them grow better person. So in short, leaving a childhood have made me realize that one cannot be sad about it because leaving it would only make us a better person. Though the child physically is not me anymore, I can still relive it through past memories and engaging in activities with children. Though the poem was so deep it was able to give some past memories that made me realize how goodbyes are never the end. All of which are only temporary and can still be remembered.

My First Blog For Humalit EH

You know what I like Ars Poetica? It is the fact that it presents itself and use words that are simple and easy to understand yet with all of its simplest words, it was still able to give a very deep and complex meaning. For me, when I first read it all of its text was very basic and I didn't even need to use a dictionary; but the meaning itself is shown despite its simple use of terms. The author was keeping it simple. When you think about it poems usually pertain to themes or things about the world. Most poems are always focus on others and not focus on how a poem should be like and for me I thought it was quite unique but as said in the class , one cannot say its unique unless there was no one able to have that same context. What made me said that it was unique was because of all my childhood a poem never particularly talks about the poem itself; in a sense where it is saying what a poem should be like. It usually pertains to the things or themes in life but never really about poems and also that is why I think that this poem should be read by literature majors because it was good in both delivering a good poem and at the same time delivering what a poem should be like. Some students like me always keep on making poems force to rhyme and never really thinking about the context of it. There is nothing that in this poem that I would dislike because it is in fact a very good poem. How do I say this? well for the fact that its context was not too deep and not to simple to understand. Parts of the poem are just enough to be understood by anyone. Unlike other poems where it is so deep that you need to have a doctorate to degree to decipher its meaning. I personally don’t really get poems on what they are targeting or what is they’re objective because at an early age teachers are just forcing students to just read it and never really tell what a purpose of a poem. The Ars Poetica may just describe what a poem should be but just by simply knowing the characteristic of a poem, you would already know what it is trying to tell or what its objective is. A sample in the poem line is “Dumb As old medallions to the thumb”. That line right there describes a poem that it should make people remember memories of the past so basically just by knowing that fact you already know that a poems objective is to try make you feel and reflect on the past. Even if a poem is just not arguing it is trying to make you feel something when you read it and for me that is the objective of a poem. To make you feel something and to relate.