[The Brain-is wider than the Sky-]
This poem is a short and explicit yet enjoyable way of saying the brain is of more than the sky, it is a simple and understanding way of the two. The simplest of words yet so empowering and meaningful. The brain's limit does not even compare to the sky's. The brain is complex, and of many things and the sky is just one thing. Though the sky surrounds the earth which have people and many things, the sky is still just a sky. It may contain an Earth with many things and people but the sky is the sky. Where as the brain does many things, and can learn many things from anything that surrounds it. The brain absorbs and consumes anything and everything around it, "for-put them side by side-the one the other will contain." The brain contains of many things from the world, including the sky. The brain feeds on everything, it is knowing of many things, "the one the other will absorb-as sponges-buckets-do." The brain is the sponge and the sky is the water, anything the sky contains the brain will pick up on it and take it in. The brain has more expansion than the sky, the brain can go off of one thing to many other things and the sky just circles the globe, the world. The brain and the sky are connected, if there is a sky there is a brain, if there is a brain there is a sky. Where there is one there is the other, "as syllable from sound." A syllable has a sound just as the brain to the sky. They do not part, there can't be the sky without the brain or the brain without the sky. They are as one, even though they are two different things, they are united.
I agree with what you found in this poem. The brain can imagine and ponder over all the things of the world past the sky and what it holds on earth. The brain can also hold all that information and even stuff so deep within that we conciously didn't put it there or think about, deeper than a sea. For the last stanza, I had to read it a few times before I really grasped my idea of this.
ReplyDeleteI think that the brain is being used as naming a part for the whole; the brain is a synecdoche of a person. Our brain and the power of the thinking process is what sets humanity apart from other animals or things on this world. So for this last stanza I replaced "brain" with people. We are each considered a "weight of God" he's there to take care of us, steer us in the right directions, and judge our actions when we pass on. "Pound for Pound" humanity and God differ a lot; one versus billions. whooo, that sounded really religious.
I thought that the dashes seperating all the lines in the poem was an interesting and slightly annoying way of dividing the thoughts, but when you read it outloud with those breaks it sounds good. I love the use of repetition and rhyme in this one as well.