Explain

Respond to each of the following in a well-considered post in your blog. Limit your selection of detail to a separate poem for each response.

1. Explain how image and symbol reinforce theme in a poem.
2. Explain how facts about a writer's life are relevant to your understanding of a poem.
3. Explain how a poem can reflect a poet's personal psychology.
4. Explain how your own experiences affect your interpretation of a poem.

Sophie was introduced to Aristotle. Ideas no longer belong to a realm of their own, but somehow the idea is within the thing. Aristotle could explain this by talking of sculptures and stone. Review what was said earlier about Plato and art.

from Republic, BOOK VII And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold!