Blog Post #1
Recently I found a poem by Jane Kenyon called, “Happiness” it is a very inspiring poem as she creates a very visual image as she writes. She states, “No, happiness is the uncle you never knew about, who flies a single-engine plane onto the grassy landing strip, hitchhikes into town, and inquires at every door until he finds you asleep mid afternoon as you so often are during the unmerciful hours of your despair.¨ She paints a very vivid image of an uncle, in the form of happiness, flying a single engine airplane while landing on a grassy landing strip trying to reach you. What she is trying to say is that happiness will do anything and everything to find you even in your darkest times. Her use of imagery within her words really emulates the theme of happiness because, it tells the story of happiness making itself into your life. When she describes the uncle hitchhiking into town and going door to door, you can see exactly what she means, by happiness will find you. I loved her bold tone throughout her poem, as she tells the story, I will definitely be looking at more of her poems.
