Blog Entry 3: Poetry Symbolism

    Denise Mangano was born in Perth, Australia where she states that "Growing up on a 6000 acre wheat and sheep farm, where I learned that being alone, does not mean you have to be lonely. Not when you have your imagination to take you to places you have only ever read about, or those special places that you and you alone, can create in your mind." She uses her loneliness to expand her imagination and creativity, i admire this about her because she used her life's weakness (loneliness) in a positive way to help her create and write all her wonderful poems.Denise is a very outgoing person that puts her soul,past, life and emotions into each poem. I choose this poem because it was very deep and emotional, i loved its contexts and the way she expressed and compared everything. It reminded me of the relationship me and my boyfriend have. This is a unique and nice poem that i would delicate to him. 

    The first symbol that Denise uses is in her title "Keeper Of My Dreams"is the word "dreams" to interpret how this person holds her everything. In the first stanza she writes about how her life would be without who she is referring to, she uses the symbols you're not here, share (be with), days and nights, incomplete, heart (life), soul (self, spirit), oneness (harmony), seek to interpret her feelings and the emotions. The second stanza she uses deep symbolizing to explain how life is when she's with this person and how life is with out this individual the words without (lacking or absent),merely,exist,day to day, with you find,searching, completeness, eternal,peace and mind all have powerful meaning of feeling and emotion. In stanzas three and four we finally see who she is referring to, line 10 "the man who holds my heart in his hands", she is talking about a "man". She keeps using strong words of feeling and attraction. The author repeats the titles name in line 9, keeper, dreams, the one, spend, life,always, stand. She continues to stanza number four with the last word of  stanza number 3, stand. In the last 2 stanzas she writes journey, time, place, completeness, two hearts, souls, embrace, forever, search, end, hearts, each other, lovers, soul-mates and friends to finish off her off her poem with this positive poetic love poem.

    Dreams are symbols of language and can invoke a feeling or an idea and often have a much more profound and deeper meaning. She means that he keeps her safe and knows all her secrets. You have to trust someone in order for them to know your dreams because dreams are very personal and individual. she states that he is the keeper (protector) of her dreams (a series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep). The poem contains repetition of love emotion throughout the stanzas which I find makes the poem consistent. The title and poem is self-explanatory and the poem is very clear and easy to understand. STANZA 1, The poem starts off by saying, when he is not here to be part of her everyday life she feels like her spiritual existence is lacking something,he is her life and harmony and total self  that she looks for. STANZA 2, She writes how with out him she is incomplete (lacking a part) because he is her soul. Without him and in his absence she feels empty but with him she has all the elements and tranquility needed. STANZA 3, he is the guard/protector of her thoughts and the man touches and possesses her life, the individual she wants to be with eternally and the one who she will always be next to. STANZA 4, they have been together through good and bad situations and next to each other no matter the obstacles in life, she is aware that the emotion they are a part of will lead them everyday. STANZA 5, all the time and things they been through together began long ago before anything else was created, there love story fulfill her, and they come together as one. STANZA 6, for a limitless time she wants to be next to him because she has found what he needed in him and needs no one else, there hearts (life as individuals) found one another as lovers, as the person who is perfectly suited for her and is attached to her by affection or esteem.

    I believe this poem is about a man who the author is in fact in love with. He may be her husband/boyfriend, but there is greatness and positive emotion of love in the whole poem. All the symbolizing used show great affection towards this man and how being together is her eternal (endless) peace of mind. She needs this man in her life to be happy and she wants to be forever with him. She calls him the "Keeper of my dreams" and the title is a description of how she sees him in her life. I can tell they have been together through hard situations and for many years, line 13 "stand beside through thick and thin", line 17 "this journey was started long ago". The theme of this poem has love,passion and good affection written all over it. She trusted him with her life and with her soul.

 

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