A common theme with poetry is talking about youth, childhood, life lessons, and "coming of age." This poem falls into the childhood/ lesson category. I am going to try something new:
"Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of poetry."- Pretty straight forward, the girls are reading a poem and find something out that they didn't know before.
"I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line. They
told me" - The author, wrote the line, yet she doesn't even know what the secret is. I guess the meaning of poetry changes for each person.
"(through a third person)
they had found it
but not what it was,
not even"- the girls found a secret of life, not in a specific line of words, but more in the poem's meaning as a whole.
"what it was. No doubt
by now, more than a week
later, they have forgotten
the secret,"- the girls are impacted by the poem for a split moment, and then they forget the lesson.
"the line, the name of
the poem. I love them
for finding what
I can't find,"- they forget where they learned this from, but the author is happy, because the girls found meaning where the author did not intend.
"and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it
so that"- She loves the girls because they love her. The author gave them a lesson. Then the girls forget it, leaving them unmarked again.
"a thousand times, till death
finds the, they may
discover it again, in other
lines,"- This part of the poem is vital, because it explains how necessary it is that the girls become a blank slate, so that other poems can have the same impact, and learn new things.
"in other
happenings. And for
wanting to know it,
for" - the girls must be curious to get meaning out of poetry
"assuming there is
such a secret, yes,
for that
most of all."- There is always a secret to be learned, just as long as we search for it!
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I like it! Life is full of "secrets" if we look for them.
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