For the past several weeks, we have looked at several different versions of what truth is. While each idea of truth is different, there is one central theme, individuality. No matter which viewpoint you agree with, your own personal truth is a bigger influence that the entire truth.
In "I Know the Moon," each animal has there own version of what the moon is. Even when opposed with science, the animals agree that the man of science is wrong and that they can agree that each of their opinions are better. "Wolves in the Walls" tells us that truth is not what is commonly accepted. "How to Tell a True War Story" says that truth does not have to be about something that exists. And Dickinson's poems say that God is truth.
I liked "I Know the Moon" the most because it is the one literary piece that I agreed with the most.
It expresses that our personal truths can exist without knowing the actual truth. It also shows that the truth, in the end, is a simple idea. After all the discussions and research is done, we will be left with a single truth. "Wolves in the Walls" and "How to Tell a True War Story" are much too complicated to show what truth's form is. At least Dickinson's poems are short and too her point.
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I also like "I know the Moon", but not for the same reason you did. I didn't think it shows that truth is a simple idea. I thought it deomosntrated that it was ok for everyone to have their own concept of truth.
ReplyDeleteInteresting point of view. But I did not like "I Know The Moon's" version of the truth, it seems a little ignorant. I understand that it gives the animals an appreciation to their variation of truth, but they went to ask what the moon is, and then simply discarded it without even accepting a little bit of it.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on "I Know The Moon" where it shows that each animal had their own opinion towards the moon. Very nice.
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