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Poet: Mark Strand
Poem: Keeping Things Whole
Volume: Selected Poems
Year: Published/Written in 1980
Comment 8 of 8, added on March 15th, 2006 at 7:30 PM.
When you are moving and there is no motive, that movement is Divine!
Rao from United States
Comment 7 of 8, added on January 17th, 2006 at 10:56 AM.
It is bizarre to me that people see this as a sad or negative lyric--it is so freshly zen! As fresh now as when I first read it over two decades ago. This poem so serenely expresses the highly integrated role we each play in the environment/on this plane of existence. That we, in fact, HAVE "place," and a place in this place is so comforting to me. Not in the least bit off-putting or sentimentalized or doldrum-inducing; on the contrary! I read this poem to remember that I, too, have a purpose in moving along in this life, and that my passage is not inconsequential. Very IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE/THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT in message, I think...
Bobbie from United States
Comment 6 of 8, added on December 16th, 2005 at 3:32 AM.
the poet pleads for wholeness and perfection against the usual fragmentation that goes on in life. its such a sad poem and it also has such depth of emotions in it.
pannu
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When you are moving and there is no motive, that movement is Divine!
Rao from United States