The poem "To Myself" interested me because the tone I felt was kind of longing but apathetic...if that makes sense? Or maybe what I mean is longing and accepting of that...Whatever it is...the poem was really interesting to me.
Before I read the title I read the whole poem and I thought that it was a poem about being infatuated with someone else, but when I noticed the title the second time I read the poem, I thought it was really cool that it was actually the poet speaking to himself...or herself.
I think the whole concept of "finding out who you really are" is interesting and I used to be obsessed with finding out "who I really was." Then I saw this quote book at Barnes & Noble in the bargain price section and one of the quotes said, "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." This quote shifted my whole view of my life...it is funny how on little quote in a bargain priced book at Barnes & Noble did that.(:
Anyway, I got off topic...Sorry!
The poem does not rhyme but it uses a lot of repetition in sets of lines like "you" and "not." The poem has about the same number of words in each line so the poem keeps a rectangular shape. It is only one stanza, but there are 16 lines.
I thought the poem was accepting because in the end it says "you are not time and who speak in the words but you are not what they say you who are not lost when I do not find you." I had to read this a couple times over, but I basically think it says that when I don't know who I am, I am not lost because I am not someone that needs to be found...Actually! This goes hand in hand with my story! You are always trying to find yourself...but you really don't need to because in the process you become who you really are. You "create yourself."
I guess this poem's meaning is that you shouldn't spend time finding out who are if you are "lost" and you should just accept the mystery of life because life will never let you find yourself because it is always changing in time, and you will change because of that.
Did I just "tie this poem to a chair and beat it with a hose?"
Oh well...(:
I don't think anyone was harmed in the writing of this blog. :) I think you're thoughts are great! I like the idea of creating yourself too. I think if you can spend way too much time finding yourself and end up with nothing!
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