Bewilderment

In the essay written by Fanny Howe, she introduces the word bewilderment and how such a simple word can have a complex meaning. In the story the concept of bewilderment shown is that we are never in the "known" in our dreams. She also explains how bewilderment is important in poetry today by providing several problems with some works of poetry and how bewilderment can answer these aspects to those problems. I like this essay because it can be interpreted in many different ways because of how each person can individually perceive this story. When she says "The dreamer is aware that only everything else but this tiny dream exists and in this way the dream itself is free to act without restraint." I think this means that we know consciously that we are dreaming which allows us are dreams to be very random. Dreams are very confusing, but it's still apart of a daily cycle we as humans go through. Which by dreams being random and confusing is basically the working definition of Bewilderment. With this uncertainty, bewilderment plays a huge role in poems because you may have thought you understood and interpreted the poem, but in fact the author had a very different meaning to what it actually meant. This kind of parallel thinking inspires us and is a huge part in the way people think because it helps us try and understand other questions in life like the meaning of life, or how the universe came to existence. Without bewilderment the world we live in would be a loss of uncertainty and progression. Just like she says in the essay the "the point of art-like war- is to show people that life is worth living by showing that it isn't."