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"Fairy Tales"
Shu Ting
You believed in your own story,
then climbed inside it-
a turquoise flower,
You gazed past ailing trees,
5- past crumbling walls and rusty railings.
Your least gesture beckoned a constellation
of wild vetch, grasshoppers, and stars
to sweep you into immaculate distances.
The heart may be tiny
10- but the world's enormous.
And the people in turn believe-
in pine trees after rain,
ten thousand tiny suns, a mulberry branch
bent over water like a fishing rod,
15- a cloud tangled in the tail of a kite.
Shaking off dust, in silver voices
ten thousand memories sing from your dream.
The world may be tiny
but the heart's enormous
Question: 1. In Shu Ting’s “Fairy Tales,” lines 18 and 19 are a mirror image of lines 9 and 10. (a) What is the effect of this repetition with variation? (b) How would the poem be different if the poet simply repeated lines 9 and 10 without changing them?
Can you please proofread my answers that are based on the question and poem above? Please feel free to add or delete anything. Thanks a lot!
Answer: 1. (a) By switching the wording of the lines, the poet makes the reader think about the different ways we can see the world. When the heart is tiny and the world is big, it means we are all little specks in the world, and the world is full of experiences and adventures. In the second set of lines, it reflects a change. This time, the world is small. It is a speck in the universe, but our hearts and our love and our lives are enormous, because love (or passion) is what makes us special.
(b) If the poet would not have changed the lines, then this contrast would not have been created, and the poet would have left us feeling that our little lives (hearts) don't mean much in the big world. This ends up being the opposite of the meaning that the poem has as it is written.
"Fairy Tales"
Shu Ting
You believed in your own story,
then climbed inside it-
a turquoise flower,
You gazed past ailing trees,
5- past crumbling walls and rusty railings.
Your least gesture beckoned a constellation
of wild vetch, grasshoppers, and stars
to sweep you into immaculate distances.
The heart may be tiny
10- but the world's enormous.
And the people in turn believe-
in pine trees after rain,
ten thousand tiny suns, a mulberry branch
bent over water like a fishing rod,
15- a cloud tangled in the tail of a kite.
Shaking off dust, in silver voices
ten thousand memories sing from your dream.
The world may be tiny
but the heart's enormous
Question: 1. In Shu Ting’s “Fairy Tales,” lines 18 and 19 are a mirror image of lines 9 and 10. (a) What is the effect of this repetition with variation? (b) How would the poem be different if the poet simply repeated lines 9 and 10 without changing them?
Can you please proofread my answers that are based on the question and poem above? Please feel free to add or delete anything. Thanks a lot!
Answer: 1. (a) By switching the wording of the lines, the poet makes the reader think about the different ways we can see the world. When the heart is tiny and the world is big, it means we are all little specks in the world, and the world is full of experiences and adventures. In the second set of lines, it reflects a change. This time, the world is small. It is a speck in the universe, but our hearts and our love and our lives are enormous, because love (or passion) is what makes us special.
(b) If the poet would not have changed the lines, then this contrast would not have been created, and the poet would have left us feeling that our little lives (hearts) don't mean much in the big world. This ends up being the opposite of the meaning that the poem has as it is written.