Entrando Al Mar

A Wreck in a Human Life
In the poem "Diving into the Wreck," Adrienne Rich talks about the importance of visiting our tragedies to learn from them and understand how that happen. The poem usessymbols like knife, camera and a book to represent emotions and life catastrophe such a death in the family. Rich emphasizes in the importance of going to the wreck to appreciate what was saved from thedestruction.
Reading the story is not the same as living. In the poem Rich write " I come to explore the wreck. The words are proposes. The words are maps." We can heard about a tragedy and evenwitness one, but when we are the victims, the whole meaning changes from our perspective. The writer does not want to see it with her own eyes and feel like she was there when the tragedy happened. Theauthor mentions a " Book of Myth" which she read before contemplating going to the wreck. The book of myth which can be considered a book of lies, is what most of us get after having experienced atragedy or hearing about it. Sometimes, we know our truth but not the other person's side of the story or we do not know many details, like when parents and the kids don't know how or why it happens. Forthat reason, Rich insists on the importance of finding the truth, the detail, the humor, emotion and story that the wreck destroyed. A knife is also mentioned, which symbolizes a weapon, in the poem,the knife is never used, but she is prepared to use " and check the edge of the knife-blade," in order words, to prepare for that strange and unknown world. The poet also mentions what might beconsidered a device to capture mermaid, the camera, an aid to help her to capture the moment when she encounter the truth so that she will never forget it. (To the preparation to confront reality or adifficult situation) is necessary a good understanding of why we are going and what we are getting from the visit.
At the entrance in an uncharted world, Rich is contemplating a ladder. The ladder is...