The Secret - Dialectical Essay
Life is like a constant journey of discovery. As we go through life we take what we experience and we interpret it. For each person there is a Kaleidoscope of different experiences and interpretations. People find meaning in everything. Take for example the "What do you see in this blotch of ink" methodology used by psychologists. Several interpretations are formed on a blotch of ink; one person may say it represents a dinosaur, while another may say a rabbit. Within poetry this varying realm of interpretation exists. In Denise Levertovs poem, The Secret, "Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of Poetry."(101) The secret, though eminent to the girls, remains blind to the author. It is because of the way people see things so invariably different it is almost impossible to understand the true meaning accrued. There are infinite circumstances that have an effect on the way we see things in our "Mind's Eye". As a child I buried myself in books of multiple genres. I read mystery, fantasy, science fiction, action, drama and an assortment of others. Reading developed my imagination, I interpreted what I read, began to see things differently and I compared things i
n life to what I read. The books vividly came to life and were soon part of my world. The sad thing was that rarely was there anyone else that understood why I saw things the way I did sometimes. Because our lives constantly evolve, sometimes very quickly, the way we see things changes. The events and experiences of our lives constantly mold and shape us. What we see today may not be what we see tomorrow. An answer we find today, we may find may not be an answer tomorrow. When the girls in The Secret discover "the secret of life", that secret, the special meaning behind it, may only last for a short period of time. Denise Levertov writes, "[n]o doubt by now, more than a week later, they have forgotten the secret, the line, the name of the poem"(101). It is quite possible that the answer the girls discovered may have only been temporary. Our "Mind's Eye" is like the shore at the ocean. While it is still a shore, as a mind is still a mind, there is a process at hand. Think of the grains of sand on this shore as information, the water is the carrier of that information. The larger rocks on the shore are set beliefs, things that are completely a part of us. On the shore the wate
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Approximate Word count = 798
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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