The Secret By Denise Levertov

The secret by Denise Levertov is the type of poem you lose yourself reading. It’s like a story almost written in such beautiful words. The poem is about the little things life that and how two girls unravel these small things in the world.

                      “Two girls discover/the secret of life/in a sudden line of/poetry” (1-4). This first stanza is simple two girls discover something that they never seen before something that they haven’t witness with their eyes. “I who don't know the/secret wrote/the line. They/told me” (5-8). When reading this I think it means that this old age person who have seen all the simple things but takes it for granted. So this person forgets about what it was it was like seeing these simple but amazing things for the first time when he/she was younger. “(through a third person)/they had/found it/but not what it was/not even//what line it was. No doubt/by now, more than a week/later, they have forgotten/the secret” (9-16). These words mean that so they discover new things what they call secret in the poem and as time pass u don’t forget about it but u just get use to seeing it so its not new to the little girls anymore.” the line, the name of/the poem. I love them/for finding what/I can't find” (17-20). This stanza is saying that this person watching them is happy and proud for them like a parent to their child for discovering the little things. The little things that he/she cant rediscover and get that same exciting feeling about.” and for loving me/for the line I wrote,/and for forgetting it/so that//a thousand times, till death/finds them, they may/discover it again, in other/lines” (21-28). The person appreciates them for loving him for the what he/she had showed the girls. It also says that the old age person is happy that they forgot the simple things so that they could re discover it when they are at his point of view. Reading this poem brings me back to when I was young and everything happening around me seems to be a miracle. From watching a plane fly in the clear sky to a lady bug on a leaf. It was so new and exciting to witness these things.