When I try to examine the thing that has touched me deepest- poetry and literature comes up naturally. I have laughed and wept through books and have always read vociferously. My favourite poet is Robert Frost- I don't fully understand it but something of his account of the world stirs emotions within me and leads me to deeper places.
The poem Mending Wall is one many have studied through their schooling- some have found it ruined by the toll of poor teaching, lack lustre engagement and the toil of study and performance for marks.
The thing that strikes me most is Frost's question:
"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense."
He then goes onto to talk of the "Something there is that doesn't love a wall,"
The Frozen Ground swell is that which causes the boulders to tumble down- it is that which seeks unity, access, community- that something is for me God.
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