Child and Flowers: This is an Ekphrastic poem: based on something visual, visualizing through the text. The poem seems to recommend living in the moment, instead of basing everything off of previous and future experiences. It says that the flowers could wilt and die soon, so enjoy them while you can, appreciate the aesthetic (not just flowers). I question whether or not this is truly possible - in many ways, who we are is based entirely off of our past experiences, good or bad. I don;t believe that we can fully live in the moment, because we view everything (unintentionally) through a lens of experiences.
Problems and benefits of visualizing text:
Visualizing text can be very time consuming, costly, often contains human error, and there could be differences coming through new formats of the text. In the positive, the text becomes not just text: visual cues are also important. Reading is not that much different from looking at images - text is a visual experience in itself.
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