You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting--
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
I feel like the poem is trying to say not to focus on your mistakes too long. That they may be useful in learning, but as said in line 7 "the world goes on" and by obsessing over problems in our lives, we are missing the good things in life that are around us every day such as the descriptions of the landscapes with deep tree and rivers.
ReplyDeleteThis diction of the poem contains comforting and calming to imply that the world won't end with a mistake. I find this poem to be very motivational because it's message is to never give up. it's important for people to keep living their lives even if something doesn't work out for them.
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