A02
Week 10
Throughout this class we had the opportunity to read many beautiful poems every week. This week is no outlier from this trend. This week, the poem "His Holiness Held My Hand to His Heart" by W.P under the chapter, My Kintsuki, stood out to me the most. The poem explores the narrators feelings as they fight against anger and hatred. They fight "fire against fire", but later on presumably has a spiritual awakening.
After this awakening, the narrator has a new realization to never give up on their fight. They promise to never give up on fighting the "lies, insults, and silence" they face in thew world. This awakening can be compared to the Japanese word that makes up the title, "Kintsugi". Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. Just like the broken pottery, the narrator's soul was broken due to the hatred they have faced. But their spiritual awakening mends their soul back together and then they found a new drive to keep fighting. I think that this metaphor is a message for to motivate the readers to keep fighting past any hardships they may face. It also serves as a non-violent metaphor because W.P. urges the readers to not rebuild the system off the same hatred from which it was made. We instead must build it the right way.
My question is: How could a system be rebuilt if those who believe in the previous system have the same drive to fight for what they believe in?
Source:
Valverde, K.-L. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Picture from:
Lesser, Casey. “Exploring the Japanese Ceramics Tradition of Embracing Flaws with Gold.” Artsy, 24 Aug. 2018, www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-centuries-old-japanese-tradition-mending-broken-ceramics-gold.
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