Reading Response to Amazing Grace
Joshua Haltom
ENG125
Olabisi Adenekan
Ashford University
October, 30, 2012
Poetic literature has intrinsic
quality of relevant, human, existentiality.
The poet may write about everything they sense, feel, experience, or imagine. Saying that poetry is built into our life
experience, is another way of saying that human experiences are more complex
than they seem. (Clugston, 2010) In a way, we are all poets when we attempt to
relate the outward environment to our internal condition. Since perception is reality, the imagery
within poetry is only as limited as the reader's spiritual capacity. Poetry is unique in pervasive depth of
symbolic content.
