In a deep demonstration of lost connection between family members, Hart Crane’s ’My Grandmother’s Love Letters’ shows us that memory is a powerful gift that we are given as humans and that we should use it to our advantage. The excerpt that I have chosen to write about from the text begins, “Over the greatness of such space steps must be gentle. It is all hung by an invisible white hair,”. The poem ends with, “Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand through much of which she would not understand; And so I stumble.” What I find most significant about this poem is how the narrator is able to see his grandmother as an authentic person, not just a relative. I believe that the lines that I have chosen from the text is representative to the
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And I ask myself: “Are your fingers long enough to play old keys that are but echoes: Is the silence strong enough to carry back the music to its source and back to you again as though to her?” I believe that what this is saying is that the memories he holds of his grandmother are delicate and sacred to him. I could see this through the word choice of tremble and the mystically of the question that he asks himself. Finally, the last lines of the poem that read, “Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand through much of which she would not understand; And so I stumble.”, really seems to sum up my interpretation of the poem as a whole. This shows that the relationship between the two of them was not much more than blood, but still makes you feel the love and respect that he has for his grandmother through his memory of her. This last line reflects the overall feelings that the narrator has toward his grandma, which is more than …show more content…
It is amazing what little things in life like letters can do for a person. Memoirs like these can make us happy, sad, and confused, but I think in this case it was a sense of appreciation. Although the narrator in Hart Crane’s poems grandmother will never know what finding these love letters did for him, at least it gave him an experience to gain an open-mind as well as for the readers of this
And I ask myself: “Are your fingers long enough to play old keys that are but echoes: Is the silence strong enough to carry back the music to its source and back to you again as though to her?” I believe that what this is saying is that the memories he holds of his grandmother are delicate and sacred to him. I could see this through the word choice of tremble and the mystically of the question that he asks himself. Finally, the last lines of the poem that read, “Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand through much of which she would not understand; And so I stumble.”, really seems to sum up my interpretation of the poem as a whole. This shows that the relationship between the two of them was not much more than blood, but still makes you feel the love and respect that he has for his grandmother through his memory of her. This last line reflects the overall feelings that the narrator has toward his grandma, which is more than …show more content…
It is amazing what little things in life like letters can do for a person. Memoirs like these can make us happy, sad, and confused, but I think in this case it was a sense of appreciation. Although the narrator in Hart Crane’s poems grandmother will never know what finding these love letters did for him, at least it gave him an experience to gain an open-mind as well as for the readers of this