Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Hello all. I did a search on this topic and nothing came up so I am asking it here.
I have started reading a book.The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Inferno.
My boyfriend has it set up in his Literature Syllabus for his kids homeschooling, would like me to be in on the discussion.
Question is... can I read it?
It brought over feelings of intense emotion as I read it. I got a couple pages in. Didn't take a couple pages, though. Happened right away.
Maybe I am an emotional person. Maybe things are going on in my life, maybe whatever but this has not ever happened.
What gives?
Well, I wanted to copy paste some lines of the book but everything I come up with is pdf.
So just the question. Has a book or book of poetry caused such emotion in you?
Depends on what kind of emotion you are talking about. If a book or a poem doesn't touch your emotions in some way, it isn't doing it's job. There were a lot of them for me - I was the only person I knew who read Thomas Hardy for pleasure in high school, for instance, and one of the novels in my Spanish class was really outstanding.
Poetry is even more important. I couldn't live without poetry, either reading it or writing it. It's essential to my life. And my tastes in poetry range from Allen Ginsburg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti to Gerard Manley Hopkins and Shel Silverstein to Shakespeare.
Several years ago, I bought Dante's Inferno, and it included a study guide.
I enjoyed the study guide very much!! Couldn't get into the book. Couldn't make sense of the book. Kept re-reading same parts over. I would like to give it another try one day....maybe I should start with the HS lesson!
So just the question. Has a book or book of poetry caused such emotion in you?
Yes, and many times. I cried a lot when I read a book called, "Dirty Picture", by Anuradha Marwah...'Princess' by Jean Sasson and many many more books.
I also read and write poetry and more often than not, it just touches you so much that you cannot get over reading it time and again!
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
