Poetry Connections

- Ka wrote 19 peoms totally. Thats roughly 6 peoms a day.

- Poetry=Happiness. To Ka his happiness was judged by the amount of poems written in a given day. Maybe Ka felt this way because he felt happiest when he was able to express how he felt, with out damaging or hurting any of his relationships with others.

-Ka also used poetry as a way to express how beautiful his surroundings were.

- His peoms were never found but Pamuk describes how each poem is directly related to events going on in his life.

- Poems were important for Ka because it was his way of measuring happiness, if he a poem had not "come to" in a while he would find something wrong going on in his life.

-Poems are important to us because they are a way to express yourself. Some people express themselves through art, some through dance and others through singing.

-Find the voice within. Its their, it just needs to find a way to escape.