Robert Beers
Date: 4/29/14
English 101
Diane Aghabegian
In “One Writers Beginning” Eudora Welty’s Speaks of “The Voice”. She describes this as human and inward. The voice is not hers but “the voice” of the reading; a cadence if you will. We will explore how Welty’s voice that runs like a pulse through her will lead to what she describes as the “The stamps” of her life. Welty’s stamps will form her deepest learning experiences and dance nicely next to her imagination from early childhood and into her adultlife.We will ponder and think about how and what pulse, stamps and ‘the voice” means to Welty’s and attempt to incorporate them into our interpretations drawing from both hers and our personal experiences. First let’s attempt to talk about Welty’s writings on stamps. She will write that “learning stamps you with its moments” (Welty).She also goes on to say that that “Childhood is made up with moments”. “It isn’t steady, it is a pulse”. (Welty)I find this interesting because when I hear the word pulse I automatically think of a steady pulse. If it was not for Welty’s saying “it is not steady would have considered it a consistent pulse find that because she did refer to it as un steady it changes the whole way the reader or in this case myself will interpret “pulse”. That being said Welty’s pulse …show more content…
Of course, as you have guessed, the good reader is one who has imagination, memory, a dictionary, and some artistic sense--which sense I propose to develop in myself and in others whenever I have the chance”. (Vladimir Nabokov)I believe that Vladimir’s Nabokov’s opinion of imagination stringent as they may be are good comparison or contrast to Welty’s because they are both intense interpretations of creating solid reading tools explanations of their opinions and experiences on how to read in their