Thursday, 21 February 2013

10. Seeker of Truth by E. E. Cummings

              The Seeker of Truth by E. E. Cummings is a very, very short poem. It's really hard to write 250-word reflection to this short poem. The seeker of truth should follow no path because the truth is here. What does this truly mean, the poem gets you thinking. When you first read the poem, you're thinking: it's just a sentence wrote with bad grammar. The poem's shortness is intimidating. The poem is really short and boring, but in order to appreciate it, you have to use your noodle. The poem is so vague, it doesn't tell a story, or any characters to tell it. What is the truth? The truth could be anything, this poem could be used in so many perspectives. It can be used to tell the story of anything. Am I the seeker, are you the seeker? I guess if you are looking for an answer, you could use this guideline to answer it. In that case, we are the seekers of the answers, or the truth. The Seeker of Truth is like a short guideline. It doesn't tell a story and it isn't entertaining. It is a nice guideline to live by if you've thought about it as much as I did, and if you understand it like I do. The poem can be beautiful if you seek the truth of the Seeker of Truth. Reading the poem wasn't fun at all, but thinking about it for this long, and writing this essay, all this time, made me really enjoy this poem.

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