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Growing up I had a hand-me-down desk that had newspaper clippings taped all over it. Most of the articles were full of pointless information used for homework for my aunts and uncles. One simple, yet life changing phrase from that desk has stuck with me my entire life.

"Ones life is like a sentence, how important the pauses are."

This is something that since age 5, I have never forgotten. Now a days there are millions of sayings just like the one above, but I believe this one has the most meaning and most value. In literature sentence structure can completely tell a story of its own, in life if one person does not know when to pause and to take a breath then this person cannot live a well structured life. Maybe we all need to start vocusing on the pauses in our life and take into consideration that it is "ok" to take a break in life sometimes. Maybe I can pass on this phrase to others in hope of finding it's definent meaning.

The Book

Miller Williams was born in 1930, and is a poet, author, translator, and editor. He has authored over 25 books and several poems. He is best remembered for writing a poem for President Clinton's 1997 inauguration. His poem, The Book, in my opinion, is written from a veterans point of view. This poem reminds me of the stories and movies about the Vietnam War, and the struggles the soldiers went through. "He had found it in a fallen bunker," this line is what made me believe it was about war, and also "I stared and a horror grew,". Since many soldiers had trouble talking about the war after they served, this expressed how once he realised his life was the story in the book, it scared him. Miller was sesarching for words to go onto the empty pages, and once he figured it out, the story was soon unraveled and captivated. Although I could not find any proof to back up my opinions, I still interpretted the poem this sense and believe that Williams left this poem open for any kind of readers' opinions. The phrase "Human skin" is also used twice to emphazise Williams effert to give the phrase meaning. The way he talks about human skin, and flesh is deadly in a way that war is always described. The structure of the poem is very splattered. There seems to be several thoughts all just thrown into sentences or short paragraphs, i could not seem to find any specific reason for these sentence structures. My favorite part of the poem is the last line, "How beautiful it was until i knew." This line to me seems to explain how Williams thought the book was something wonderful, but once he unraveled the story inside it became more gloomy and real and it frightened him. It frightened him in a way that all reality frightens us.

The Secret

This poem makes me feel hopefull! If i had people telling me they discovered a secret of life throughout my poem, i'd be delighted. Although the girls forgot the secret rather soon, the idea had remained with them forever. If i were the writer i might want to know the secret that way i don't have to be searching for it forever, but i think that is the point of the poem the more i read. The author can be releaved throughout life by pondering about the secret that the two girls had found.