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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 #938291 added July 19, 2018 at 9:04pm
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An Elizabeth Gaskell Quote
Prompt: "I'll not listen to reason-reason always means what someone has to say." Elizabeth Gaskell What are your thoughts on this quote?
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What others label as reason, meaning what is reasonable for them, may not work for someone else. Everyone has to think for himself or herself and find what works for them. In that way, everyone’s reason, or reasoning of the general public or the ruling class, may not apply to any one individual. This has to do mostly with the personality, which means how people usually relate to the world and their inner selves.
Related to one’s personality, one’s reasoning includes openness to experience, agreeableness, achievement, conscientiousness, and above all his or her freedom to make choices. Since a person makes his.her choices upon the dictates of his personality, other people’s choices do not correspond with his or hers.
As this is a quote from a Victorian short story, in which Martha, who is a caretaker and companion for an older woman, rebels when the old woman pushes on her what she wants rather than what Martha wants. What Martha wants is to make a pudding, but the woman doesn’t want anything sweet and she orders mutton or something like it.
Over this, Martha is ready to resign, despite a certain financial agony for her, but when she is presented with the fact that the old woman would suffer without her, she comes to terms by deciding to make the pudding with her own money for she is sure of the outcome that the old woman will eat the pudding and will like it, too.
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