Powerful Poetry

I have to admit that I was less than thrilled when we were assigned the poetry pod.  Once I started to get into the assignments, I began to change my mind.  If you step away from thinking that there is only one possible interpretation for a poem and open your thoughts and mind to explore different possible meanings for you personally, then I think it becomes much easier to read.  I think everyone has a different interpretation of each poem, and no one has the "correct" answer.  I found a poem by Robert Frost that wasn't in our reading assignment, but to me, it was thought provoking so I wanted to share it with everyone.

Bond and Free
Robert Frost (1920)

Love has earth to which she clings
With hills and circling arms about—
Wall within wall to shut fear out.
But Thought has need of no such things,
For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings.

On snow and sand and turf, I see
Where Love has left a printed trace
With straining in the world’s embrace.
And such is Love and glad to be.
But Thought has shaken his ankles free.

Thought cleaves the interstellar gloom
And sits in Sirius’ disc all night,
Till day makes him retrace his flight,
With smell of burning on every plume,
Back past the sun to an earthly room.

His gains in heaven are what they are.
Yet some say Love by being thrall
And simply staying possesses all
In several beauty that Thought fares far
To find fused in another star.