Sonnet

The blog post said to, pick a poem from our collection English Romantic Poetry, and defend why you think it's important so I chose, the Sonnet (p.149). The spoke to me because I always think of how the world works and to live each day in the moment because you never know when that day could be over and you would be lost to eternity for all time. In the first line it talks about “Lift not the painted veil in which those who live”. So I feel like it is hard for some people to not liver in the moment because you might miss something extraordinary and if you do live a bit sheltered you are missing out on a world of beauty and you may never ever know the feeling of having the wind on your face or the smell of the salt water against the rocky shores of an tropical island. You will miss the simple things in life that make things great and worth living for. It really showed a sense of inner freedom and the idea that we all have a right to a life of not looking through rose colored glasses. This poem is simple with an edge, a deeper end to an all in world of possibilities. But you have to be willing to stick out your neck for someone or something completely and completely life changing in every way, such as eating Chinese in china on the day of Chinese New Year. You never know what you will get until you risk to know.