In the passage, Fanny Howe conveys how this simple term has
much an elaborate meaning, “In the dictionary, to bewilder is “to cause to lose
one’s sense of where one is”’ this isn’t something that can be easily understood
nor should it be, because the whole concept portrayed in the passage is that we
are never fully in the “know” that there are many incenses in our lives that we
don’t understand what they mean or why they even appear in our lives. Dreams and poetry are shown in the passage to
be things they we don’t comprehend the meaning of them. As for dreams, they may happen every night,
but they aren’t always in a way that we understand, they can be weird and too
complex for us to every figure out.
Poems are kind of the same, because you could have a room filled with
people and have them all read the same poem, but get different meanings, “Each
poem is a different take on an idea, an experience, each poem is another day,
another mood, another revelation, another conversion” bewilderment “needs to
unravel in order for it to be interpreted.”
Also in
the passage arises the idea of bewilderment in politics and poems. This correlation explains how we in both
aspects want it to be defined and have a straight forward answer or meaning,
but often politics and poems happen to be the things in our lives that are the
hardest to find a direct meaning to,
because we are all individuals that think and interrupt things in unique
ways. That is what creates evolution and progress and inventions in life. If we were always in a state that we definitely
knew what the answer was and there was no room for individual interpretation,
all the uniqueness and the beauty of difference wouldn’t exist in today’s
world. What would exist in a world without
bewilderment, would be a loss of uncertainty and progression, this term “will never lead you back to common sense,
but will offer you a walk into a further wild place” , that place is our lives,
it’s the where our minds find have the freedom to run wild and be uncertain.
I love how you open up this blog with your reference to how Fanny Howe makes a point to describe bewilder and how its to lose the sense of where one is; and how the whole idea and point of bewilder is to be lost and not really know what is what. I always felt like this was kind of ironic that i knew the definition of a word that meant to not know or be sure of something. I think it is good that you touched on how poems and politics have the ability to be anything anybody wants. Its almost like the ideas on which this country were founded on: freedom and liberty for all, go hand in hand with the idea that our government can be whatever the people want it to be, so that it does the most for the most people. You said that you could put a bunch of people in a room and make them read the same poem and would all come up with a different meaning of it, and I know this to be true because I have seen it happen in our very own class. I think Fanny does a great job of explaining what he is trying to talk about, but in a way that is just broad enough for us to put our own spin on things and get our own definition of things while we read it.
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