2-15 Deeper meaning of works

"And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah will flow with water; and a spring will go out from the house of the Lord to water the valley of Shittim." Joel 3:18

I really enjoyed painting in class the other day. Though I’m not the best painter ever I was able to see the text of Joel in a new way. Through painting a response to a part of the passage I had to think about it and what I thought it meant. This allowed me to further interpret the literature and find its meaning. Taking the time to dive into a piece of literature and dig out its meaning is something I do not do often enough. I usually just read a text and take it at its face value. Though you can gain something from this it is not near as much as if you were to tear it apart and find the ideas and meanings behind the words and phrases. I would like to try to do this more often because there is so much more that I can learn from what I read if I just take the time to go a little deeper in my reading.
I also learned through reading the poem The Traveling Onion that it is important to look for the meanings hidden behind phrases. The first few times I read this poem I thought it was simply what it seemed; a poem about an onion. As I thought about it, however, I realized that it most likely has a deeper meaning. I read it a few more times trying to find out what it could mean. As one student began describing what he thought the poem meant I began to see the poem come to life. After I heard what he said about the poem I had a totally different perspective on it. I no longer thought it was a silly poem about a vegetable but I saw it as an amazing piece of literature with a very deep and real meaning.