Shinto by Jorge Luis Borges
When sorrow lays us low for a second we are saved
by humble windfalls of the mindfulness or memory:
the taste of a fruit, the taste of water,
that face given back to us by a dream,
the first jasmine of November,
the endless yearning of the compass,
a book we thought was lost,
the throb of a hexameter,
the slight key that opens a house to us,
the smell of a library, or of sandalwood,
the former name of a street,
the colors of a map,
an unforeseen etymology,
the smoothness of a filed fingernail,
the date we were looking for,
the twelve dark bell-strokes, tolling as we count,
a sudden physical pain.
Eight million Shinto deities
travel secretly throughout the earth.
Those modest gods touch us--
touch us and move on.
Shinto: A Poem of Euphoria
I have chosen to explicate the poem Shinto by Argentine poet, Jorge Luis Borges. Jorge Luis Borges writes poem Shinto to express and share his passion of delighted encounters. Shinto is a poem about the precious triumphs given to people of Earth by the Shinto gods. When we grow with sorrow, the Shinto’s good grace warms us with blissful sentiments. The poem goes on to explain the different forms of sentiments that we receive every day.
This poem is designed as a dejection-to-elate. The poem opens with a distraught feeling and then is overcome with harmonious remnants. In the twelfth line of Shinto, “The smell of a library, or of sandalwood,”< http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/jorge-luis-borges/shinto/> sets the language of imagery in the poem. Shinto gives the audience several different images and senses throughout the poem. Reading through the lines, one can visualize all the great sensations we as humans experience on a day to day basis.
Shinto seems to embellish on satisfying the human pleasures and desires. “The taste of fruit, the taste of water”, < http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/jorge-luis-borges/shinto/> refers to the want and needs that we crave. These rhythms of images help keep the audience’s attention on the cheerful memories. The syntax in line nine “A book we thought we lost”< http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/jorge-luis-borges/shinto/> doesn’t refer to truly finding a book but rather the feeling you got from finding it, the thrill.
At the end of the poem, the poet leaves his audience with the final belief that no one can see the deities travel through Earth. The poem concludes:
Eight million Shinto deities travel secretly throughout the earth. Those modest gods touch us—touch us and move on. <http://www.poemhunter.com/bestpoems/jorge-luis-borges/shinto/>.
by humble windfalls of the mindfulness or memory:
the taste of a fruit, the taste of water,
that face given back to us by a dream,
the first jasmine of November,
the endless yearning of the compass,
a book we thought was lost,
the throb of a hexameter,
the slight key that opens a house to us,
the smell of a library, or of sandalwood,
the former name of a street,
the colors of a map,
an unforeseen etymology,
the smoothness of a filed fingernail,
the date we were looking for,
the twelve dark bell-strokes, tolling as we count,
a sudden physical pain.
Eight million Shinto deities
travel secretly throughout the earth.
Those modest gods touch us--
touch us and move on.
Shinto: A Poem of Euphoria
I have chosen to explicate the poem Shinto by Argentine poet, Jorge Luis Borges. Jorge Luis Borges writes poem Shinto to express and share his passion of delighted encounters. Shinto is a poem about the precious triumphs given to people of Earth by the Shinto gods. When we grow with sorrow, the Shinto’s good grace warms us with blissful sentiments. The poem goes on to explain the different forms of sentiments that we receive every day.
This poem is designed as a dejection-to-elate. The poem opens with a distraught feeling and then is overcome with harmonious remnants. In the twelfth line of Shinto, “The smell of a library, or of sandalwood,”< http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/jorge-luis-borges/shinto/> sets the language of imagery in the poem. Shinto gives the audience several different images and senses throughout the poem. Reading through the lines, one can visualize all the great sensations we as humans experience on a day to day basis.
Shinto seems to embellish on satisfying the human pleasures and desires. “The taste of fruit, the taste of water”, < http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/jorge-luis-borges/shinto/> refers to the want and needs that we crave. These rhythms of images help keep the audience’s attention on the cheerful memories. The syntax in line nine “A book we thought we lost”< http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/jorge-luis-borges/shinto/> doesn’t refer to truly finding a book but rather the feeling you got from finding it, the thrill.
At the end of the poem, the poet leaves his audience with the final belief that no one can see the deities travel through Earth. The poem concludes:
Eight million Shinto deities travel secretly throughout the earth. Those modest gods touch us—touch us and move on. <http://www.poemhunter.com/bestpoems/jorge-luis-borges/shinto/>.