The Importance of Resonance

There's something of yourself in those poems you already have that poem even before you have it by memory and we might say well what makes a work resonant how can we identify resonance there are many different things that make a poem resonant. We could feel nostalgia I love the feeling of nostalgia the wistful slightly sad feeling it's one of the reasons why I love autumn so much. Maybe we feel a familial connection a connection to someone who was close to us who is no longer ever knows, Rosalind alone from as you like it contains my grandmother. maybe we read a poem and it resonates with us because we can discern something of our own temperament in the lines perhaps we feel