Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Carry It Forward: "The Writer"

Yesterday in class, we discussed the poem The Writer and how Richard Wilbur uses the starling, and the narrator to give readers different perspectives.  We also talked about how Tim O'Brien used different perspectives to try to help his audience understand the Vietnam War in his book The Things They Carried.
The whole perspective idea is valuable to me because I think that it makes writing much more interesting and fun to see a work of art in multiple, completely different perspectives. I think it's important for readers to be able to see a story or a painting in different views so they can understand it as a whole. By reading a story or a piece of writing in different perspectives, readers are able take out different meanings from the text and recognize the depth of the writing instead of just seeing it in a general view.
I will definitely be doing some more writing after high school and I'm considering maybe even writing a book after college. Being able to really think about the idea of different perspectives has really inspired me and now I want to include different perspectives in my writing this year and in the future. It's brought another element of writing into my mind and I really want to work with it. I think the idea we discussed yesterday, will improve my writing tomorrow (as in the rest of my life). 

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