Willie Ho

Sufi poetry expanded my understanding of poetry as a whole. I always thought that the language of poets was difficult to understand but after reading Sufi poetry I think that most of the language used was probably just representative ideas and nouns. In Sufi Poetry, flowers represent love; flight represents reunification with the great soul; birds represent the fallen sub-souls of the great soul. The fallen sub-souls love the great soul and long only to reunite with it. Though they can only achieve this through death. Death is viewed as something not to be feared but something good because with death, souls can become a part of their whole form again.

On another note, for the presentations next week, I really have no idea how we should explain why some book deserves to be on the syllabus moreso than another book. I really can't think of a good reason.