I Stand Here Poem Analysis

her parents. After I read and re-read and re-read the article “I Stand Here Writing”, it is clearly to see the opinion that the author wants to show us, as a writer, it’s important and necessary to use a different way to think, it will help you to find new characteristics and traits so that we could obtain inspiration to write, and sometimes when we need to compare two things, it help to find new traits and discover the relationship between different experience, ideas that seems unrelated.

Sommers also said that writing is a loss of certainty. If we are supposed to write about what we know, than we can only truly write about ourselves. Imagine there is a poet, the poet can only know her feelings and what possesses those feelings. However,

she cannot be certain that that what she is writing is true for the person she is writing of. And is she being overdramatic when she writes that “his blue eyes are as deep as the ocean”? Of course she is, but can we picture what she is writing, and do we believe her, if only for the moment? Of course we do. The poet is writing what she knows, and what she knows is what she feels, what she perceives about this stranger she is writing about. Know does the poet really, truly believe that the subject in which she is writing about really has blue eyes, no she doesn’t. That’s what makes her writing an extreme change within her beliefs. She dramatizes the knowledge that she possess, making it radical and not certain.
How this shows that the “loss if certainty” apply to writing? In writing, we tend to dramatize what is we are writing about. We end up making a change in what we believe by writing something that we don’t believe; or at least we leave the impression that we don’t believe in something that we actually do by writing the contradiction to it. But because we fail utilize the knowledge of what we know is true in our writing and use it correctly. Once we do this, our writing won’t be “a radical loss of certainty”, which it is now. Why is this way now? This is because we just want to get through what we are writing most of the time, or bring drama to what we are writing in order to make it more interesting to readers