Saturday, February 22, 2020

An Appreciation of 'Letter to 2020' - Group 1 (Close reading)

An Appreciation of 'Letter to 2020'
         'Letter to 2020' in it's essence is a message of hope. It breathes life in midst of all the hurdles,trials and tribulations and it moves in first person narrative.The letter resembles Kintsugi,the Japanese art of mending the broken pottery with powdered gold,where the cracks on the pots are beautifully distorted as uneven lines of gold. The writer,in the same way,embraces the cracks.The letter to 2020,has the reminiscences of her past,where she travels back to the mountains and valleys of emotional trauma endured in the year before.The writer affirms her survival through the continuous process of wilting and blooming,hence affirms to grow bravely.The decipherable references to nature reinforces the blissful feeling of hope persisting.The writer is reluctant to leave alone the fragments of better hope,love and failures of the ancestor years which watered her growth. She is under no illusion that life is an easy piece of baked cake.She inturn smiles at the ups and downs in life,which make this piece much more beautiful. She embrace the fact that she who is now shattered pieces,is in the process of evolving into a whole person.She is detaching parts of other people,to end feeling like half a person. The writer disregards the negativity in her life,be it people or words.This piece of writing thus radiate positive rays of hope,which defeats the chances of being critical.She challenges the days ahead,to throw her down,so that she can rise like a phoenix.She becomes a flower who is up for wilting and  blooming,even if it is plucked up.She becomes a fish who assure it's fight for survival once the pond is unfilled, she becomes a piece of art,who is in urge to repaint the scratches.The writer conveys the truth that life is hard enough and isn't always filled with joy.She also pours down drops of hope,which is significant for the growth of a person. The writer is brave enough to metaphorically represent the story of her life,with out which she is empty.

                                          -  Group1

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