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& So, Sydney Hudman
10/26/2025 - Coggle Diagram
& So
Language & Style
Contrast: “Easy to harp, harder to hope”
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Imagery: “White-blown sky,” “sun that is never shunted,” “breath we just realized we clutched.”
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Free Verse
reflective pauses mirror the process of breathing, healing, and returning.
Circularity
Ends with “coming back together,” mirroring the world’s roundness — no true separation.
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Themes & Meanings
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Resilience & Healing
Grief fades softly, replaced by renewal
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Interpretation
Gorman suggests that hope is an act of courage — not denial. The poem celebrates perseverance and unity through vulnerability.
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TOK & Knowledge Links
AOK: The Arts
Poetry transforms private emotion into shared knowledge — it communicates what statistics or logic cannot.
Gorman’s art functions as ethical storytelling: using beauty to inspire resilience and moral awareness
WOK: Emotion & Language
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Language: rhythmic and figurative language invites readers to experience connection, not just understand it intellectually.
TOK Questions
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If the world is round, are all divisions temporary illusions
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