I enjoyed reading this piece from Francis McAloon. The way he described his process of lectio divina was really cool. I know lectio divina is all pretty much the same, but when reading that tonight, I was inspired to try lectio divina this week. And now that I have said lectio divina four times in just four sentences, I'm going to stop saying it ;)
I agreed with Francis when he said that poetry is about engaging the reader into responding. But I also believe the responsibility isn't solely on the poet. I think it is also up to the reader to respond. I can be close minded a lot when reading, and I therefore don't grow or respond when reading a piece of work. The work itself can be great, but that doesn't necessarily mean I will respond. Than again, if a work is great enough, will it have the capability of capturing any audience?
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I also enjoyed reading McAloon (very interesting name in my opinion) and I agree, he explained the lectio divina process in a way that some what got the basic idea across better to me than others.
ReplyDeleteI liked your last sentence there. Any great work is worth recognition though I don't think any reader necessarily have to respond to it. But maybe if we just open our mind more to our reading, we'll be more likely to respond even if we don't like the literature itself.
ReplyDeleteI agree that if we are going to grow from a piece of literature we have to choose to respond to that piece in order to grow.
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