lyric 17
by jose garcia villa
2.What do you think are the thoughts behind the following phrases?
a.musical as a seagull
b.brightness moving
c.hold secret a birds flowering
d.fire as well
e.slender as a bell
f.wisdom of bows
g.kneel like a rose
h.luminance of dove and deer
i.God,smiling from the poem's cover
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Answer:
The following excerpt is an interview with the poet Jose Garcia Villa. In thisinterview, he is asked to explain "Lyric 17." You should find it very interesting tocompare your interpretation of each of the seven couplets to the poet's personalinterpretations.
If you find that your interpretations differ from Villa's, do not feel that yourideas were necessarily incorrect. Note how both the interviewer and the poetadmit that it is not an easy task to give an exact prose interpretation of a poeticexpression, particularly because poems are not explicitly stated; the interviewer,at one point, admits: "I have always found the next lines difficult to comprehend":
It must have the wisdom of bows
And it must kneel like a rose.