“Invention”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57913 “Invention,” by Tina Chang is a beautifully written poem that delves into the creation of earth and the death that follows. In the beginning of her poem Chang describes a dead animal she spots on the road in Taiwan. This, along with the cracked mussels, symbolizes the death that accompanied the invention of the earth. She describes these things she sees as she reflects back on a story her father once told her of God. This allows the reader to contemplate the simplicity of life and death on Earth. With the decay around her and the her thoughts of creation, it makes life seem very fragile. She ends with her going back to the dead animal in the road and thoughts of her father’s death. In this she finds that she still lives on, doing all of the things she usually does as an invention of this Earth.
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"The Idea Of Revelation"
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/57417 Tina Chang's, "The Idea of Revelation" is focusing on life and maybe even what's after. She starts off by saying, "It wasn't holy so let us not praise gods," which suggests that we should not always look to a higher being for answers. Instead we should look around us for the answers and comfort we need. She suggests this by saying, "Let us look to the bend of the road that reaches," which implies that in our darkest times we can look to simple things to get us through it. Her inspiration for this poem came to her when she was considering taking her own life, because of the depression she was facing. Chang says that just as she was thinking about it, she received a call from her cousin, which made her decide to not take her own life. This idea can be seen in her poem. it focuses on the small miracles we see in life, and how they are not always because of a higher power. She is ultimately saying in her poem that we can experience moments of grace in our everyday life without having to look to a God for it. |
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