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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Everyday Canvas #936016 added June 8, 2018 at 4:37pm
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Interesting, When It Comes to History
Prompt: What period of history is most interesting to you?
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I always liked history for its relevance to human life, and I consider the knowledge of it as an investment in our future. Fortunate or unfortunate it may be, history does repeat itself however with variances. So, when we dream of future, we can also warn ourselves, as the saying goes, forewarned is forearmed.
Surely, “forewarned” has to do mostly with the silly-stupid wars mankind gets into, but more than the wars and events around them, I am most interested in the cultural background and how people lived and thought, at any era.
For this reason, all periods of history are interesting to me, and for a while there, I was into the Romans, Europe’s middle ages and culture, and the Renaissance, but my reading, for quite a few years now, has been about the Second World War and its repercussions as far as human behavior and feelings are concerned. This may also have something to do with the time of my birth, which was after the middle of the WWII.
Maybe I was alive during the war but not much aware of it, as I had quite an overprotective family environment. The events during my older times, say the Korean War, has begun to gain importance only recently, and only recently, I have begun to read books and stories about it.
Then, reading about things that came after when I was an adult and the wars and the situations of the people involved in them do not seem too interesting to me. I think this is because I knew them well enough. For example, I had watched Watergate proceedings without missing a day.
On the other hand, the Vietnam war still hurts me deeply. I can’t bring myself to read the fiction or memoirs of it. Neither can I read anything fictional about what has happened or is happening in Iraq or Afghanistan. Such books depress me immensely. Maybe in a few years, if I am around, I’ll be able to read them.
For some weird reason, US Civil War fiction is not for me either. I feel upset that this war ever happened, although I have read some fiction on the matter such as Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.
Yet, the Revolutionary War, I have no problem with. I even enjoyed the Outlander series, which some of it took place during the Revolutionary War.
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