Communication II
Communication II - meaning Summary
Learning Across Time
This brief poem contrasts a naive student and a knowledgeable teacher to show how knowledge links past and present. The student is untouched by history, while the teacher brings ancient civilizations and more recent traumas—Pharaonic inscriptions and the Reconstruction—into the classroom. The poem presents teaching as an act of transmission that awakens awareness of cultural memory and historical suffering, closing the gap between youthful ignorance and collective experience.
Read Complete AnalysesThe Student: The dust of ancient pages had never touched his face, and fountains black and comely were mummied in a place beyond his young un-knowing. The Teacher: She shared the lettered strivings of etched Pharaonic walls and Reconstruction's anguish resounded down the halls of all her dry dreams.
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