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Flower in the crannied wall
Posted by: Behnam Jafari
{"ops":[{"insert":"\n\nA poem by Alfred Tennyson:\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"\"Flower in the crannied wall,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"I pluck you out of the crannies,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"Little flower—but if I could understand"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"What you are, root and all, all in all,"},{"insert":"\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"I should know what God and man is.\""},{"insert":"\n\n"},{"attributes":{"color":"#141823"},"insert":"In one of Richard Paul's videos on Critical Thinking and interrelated systems of concepts, I learned about this powerful poem and I wanted to share with you. What questions should we ask to know more about the flower? "},{"insert":"\n\n"}]}
Posted by: Kathy Goddard
{"ops":[{"insert":"Thank you, Behnam, for posting this poem by Tennyson. My wonderings: 1. What reason did the narrator of the poem have to pluck the flower from the wall? -- Because it was growing in the wrong place or because it was the source of his musings or ...? 2. What are the implications of \"plucking\" the flower and, thereby, beginning its death? 3. By holding the flower, did the narrator demonstrate the fragility of life or a reverence for life? 4. Is there any significance in the word \"little\". 4. What was Tennyson's purpose for writing this poem? \n\nLife itself is a wonder. Would that we all valued that.\n"}]}