{"id":198,"date":"2021-02-09T14:03:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T19:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/?p=198"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T20:06:33","slug":"risking-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/2021\/02\/09\/risking-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"Risking Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading Adrienne Rich\u2019s poem <\/span>Diving into the Wreck<\/span><\/i> I was\u00a0 immediately drawn to the vulnerability of diving into an ocean. My skin tingles as I recall diving in the Caribbean surrounded by the tepid water and sinking into the depths.\u00a0 Similarly, I ran into a shipwreck and was surrounded by murky obscurity with the unknown staring back at me. When someone is diving into darkness all things seem equal. No one is stronger or weaker than the other person.\u00a0 In the fourth stanza, the narrator says:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First, the air is blue, and then\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

it is bluer and then green and then\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

black I am blacking out<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The ocean is an abyss where one can feel universally free and escape the oppression that they are receiving from the world above. As one sinks lower and lower the weight of oppression is lifted. All souls are equal.\u00a0 Rich uses darkness as a spiritually uplifting message versus how the <\/span>Bible<\/span><\/i> refers to it as death. The narrator is no longer afraid of being alone in an underworld and believes the domain of darkness creates equality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the sixth stanza, the narrator says\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I came to explore the wreck.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The words are purposes.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

The words are maps.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

I came to see the damage that was done.<\/span><\/i>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The narrator \u201ccame to explore the wreck\u201d which perhaps is a metaphor for human suffering. Shipwrecks usually contain human suffering and as a diver explores this suffering it is the words and the maps that reveal the sadness. The wreck is left to be remembered and available to be revisited again.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After reading Adrienne Rich\u2019s poem Diving into the Wreck I was\u00a0 immediately drawn to the vulnerability of diving into an ocean. My skin tingles as I recall diving in the Caribbean surrounded by the tepid water and sinking into the depths.\u00a0 Similarly, I ran into a shipwreck and was surrounded by murky obscurity with the … Continue reading Risking Vulnerability<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4651,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqhistoryandliterature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}