Mrs. White! this is the one i forgot to do on the date of 9/5/10

"Beginning Again"

I get this poem.

OMYGOSH I GET IT!

it is so clear to me.

The narrator, whoever it may be, is talking about beginning again, and he begs the question on why he should begin again. He refers to a teacher figure who has sat in a room of no mirrors, but where everything is a mirror...everything is a reflection of oneself.

The teacher has said that the man must sit there with the mountain until only the mountain remains, until the man no longer exists but only the mountain, so that the man becomes a direct reflection of that mountain.

this all pertains to the budhist way of thinking where all things are tied into eachother where we are all one and so as along as we know this and see ourselves as the world, and a mirror of the world then we can truly be at peace. We all interact with eachother and with all things....

I cant believe i got this poem...i pondered over it for so long!