The discussion about having children is a very good discussion because not only is it a way of achieving immortality but if you are courageous, bold, independent, thoughtful, gracious, nurturing, encouraging, secure and confident, with very little if any self doubt in your abilities, you pass all those forward to your kids and they pass them forward to their kids. Now the kids have their own identity and characteristics but they will add their own characteristics to whatever ones you pass forward to them just as you may have added on to whatever characteristics your parents have forwarded to you. And parents need to love their significant other so very much or at least enough so that the kids realize that traditional love is still possible for them in their lives. The alienation that T.S. Eliot writes about is not only inability to communicate but inability to even have a discussion about anything which is the deep polarization of today. But to some people it's all also a failure of being able to offer love and respect or enough of it so you could talk about anything, find even a tiny bit of agreement somewhere so that a potential great mom or dad doesn't end up shutting themselves out into a solitary aloneness. And I think T.S. Eliot foresaw this polarizing alienation as a modern malady. So the poetry of Girl Soldier, like that of T.S. Eliot is dealing with the reality of now. And the failure of love is kind of unspoken in Sylvia Plath's poetry is the silent destruction of a man's ego and overvaluation of himself and his resentment of a woman's intellect is very specifically detailed in an aesthetic way which brings understanding but in no way lessens the overall damage.
Thanks so much for listing all the books that present Jewish history and courageous Jewish people within Jewish history. Few people know of Jewish Hindi cinema actor, David. In Jewish culture and in India's culture, children are very important. David's story is amazing. He never married or had children. In India a child's aunty or uncle is often very important in a child's life. David's most remembered for his portrayal of an incredible uncle in the old Hindi film, Boot Polish. There is an orphan boy and girl left by their father with a dissolute aunty who is horrible to them. Nobody cares about them except for the character played by David. He feels their pain and encourages them with hope that all the wretchedness they have to endure will one day end. That character reflected Jewish values similar to India's cultural values regarding family and children. So Soldier Girl indirectly reflects these values and many others. In these times poetry like that in Soldier Girl delves into Jewish values but also shows how these values or similar ones are shared with people whose culture is not Jewish but shares and benefits from having very similar values. Here is a link to find more about David to go with your list. Your comments always go to the truth of whatever is being discussed in a post, a book or a podcast like this one.
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The discussion about having children is a very good discussion because not only is it a way of achieving immortality but if you are courageous, bold, independent, thoughtful, gracious, nurturing, encouraging, secure and confident, with very little if any self doubt in your abilities, you pass all those forward to your kids and they pass them forward to their kids. Now the kids have their own identity and characteristics but they will add their own characteristics to whatever ones you pass forward to them just as you may have added on to whatever characteristics your parents have forwarded to you. And parents need to love their significant other so very much or at least enough so that the kids realize that traditional love is still possible for them in their lives. The alienation that T.S. Eliot writes about is not only inability to communicate but inability to even have a discussion about anything which is the deep polarization of today. But to some people it's all also a failure of being able to offer love and respect or enough of it so you could talk about anything, find even a tiny bit of agreement somewhere so that a potential great mom or dad doesn't end up shutting themselves out into a solitary aloneness. And I think T.S. Eliot foresaw this polarizing alienation as a modern malady. So the poetry of Girl Soldier, like that of T.S. Eliot is dealing with the reality of now. And the failure of love is kind of unspoken in Sylvia Plath's poetry is the silent destruction of a man's ego and overvaluation of himself and his resentment of a woman's intellect is very specifically detailed in an aesthetic way which brings understanding but in no way lessens the overall damage.
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Thanks so much for listing all the books that present Jewish history and courageous Jewish people within Jewish history. Few people know of Jewish Hindi cinema actor, David. In Jewish culture and in India's culture, children are very important. David's story is amazing. He never married or had children. In India a child's aunty or uncle is often very important in a child's life. David's most remembered for his portrayal of an incredible uncle in the old Hindi film, Boot Polish. There is an orphan boy and girl left by their father with a dissolute aunty who is horrible to them. Nobody cares about them except for the character played by David. He feels their pain and encourages them with hope that all the wretchedness they have to endure will one day end. That character reflected Jewish values similar to India's cultural values regarding family and children. So Soldier Girl indirectly reflects these values and many others. In these times poetry like that in Soldier Girl delves into Jewish values but also shows how these values or similar ones are shared with people whose culture is not Jewish but shares and benefits from having very similar values. Here is a link to find more about David to go with your list. Your comments always go to the truth of whatever is being discussed in a post, a book or a podcast like this one.
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