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I feel so "Dungeon Synth Noir"

 "The myth of Music" was one of the poems we did last week or the week before during the Harkness and to me it seemed like the most interesting one. What made it strangely interesting to me was how the speaker described her memories of her family and her father through music, referencing various instruments and genres of music such as jazz. In my interpretation of the poem, there seems to be parallels between her emotions and the music she describes. Her happy childhood memories are tied with jazz music. Once more, she describes how the memories were like songs without lyrics that can still be sung. What that meant to me was that those memories may not have had a straightforward purpose or meaning, but they were meaningful to her. Now, that previous sentence may not have made a lot of sense, but what I'm trying to transition into is a bigger meaning to this entire poem.      To me the entire poem is an example of how differently people view their own emotions. When p...