The New Poem Packet!

This week I'm doing "Disillusionment at Ten O'Clock." I thought it was appropriate with it being Halloween :-) "The houses are haunted by white night-gowns." So the author starts off the poem with a picture of someone in the generic white sheet dressed up as a ghost. Then he goes on to say there aren't any colored ones no lace no rings of any colors. I believe the author is relating these plain white sheets to people's lives that seem to do the same thing over and over and over. There's no vibrant color's to their lives nothing exciting. The author wants our sheets to be colorful and lively. Then he has a weird line about people not dreaming of baboons and periwinkles. Well periwinkle I know is a color and a plant so I think he might be saying that generic people don't enjoy the contrast and wonder of those two unfamiliar things. But the sailor who dreams about catching tigers in red weather. He is a sailor a man that has been around the world and back and he has seen adventure and can now dream of catching red tigers in red weather because he has the imagination for it. He has lived for those moments unlike those of us that do the same thing every day we are white sheets.

New poem packet!

This week I picked the Poem "Curiosity." The poem is centered on the famous line "Couriosity killed the cat." Parents are usually the ones to say this to theri children so they don't touch something and hurt themselves. However, this whole poem is about disproving that whole line. Because the cats have suriosity their lives are better spent (he is comparing cats to people who dare to do what they want live better better and more enjoyable lives.) "Face it. Curiosity will not cause us to die- only lack of it will. Never wanting to see the other side of the hill or that improbable country where living idyll (although a probable hell) would kill us all. Only the curious have, if they live well, a tale worth telling at all." This is the entire third stanza and it's the part of the poem where the author is being very blunt about what he is saying. You can't die from being curios, although you could get hurt once in a while, and people that are content at where they are don't want to see if the grass is really greener on the other side of the hill. Those are the "dogs." They eat good lunches, marry suitable wives, and live their lives in the safe zone. And the author is saying they don't have any stories to tell. They aren't living their lives to the fullest. "Dying is what living do, that dying is what loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not know that dying is what, to live, each has to do." Everyone is going to die it just depends if you're going to do it loving everything about your life, or playing it safe and tolerating life.

New Poem Packet!

The poem I picked is "Unveiling." I read it and I was kind of afraid for the writer. Her whole family has passed away and she goes to visit them and feels left out? I know she's trying to say she misses them but it's rather a creepy way to do it. She's relating how they sat at the dinner table to how they are buried. When I read the part about family dinners I remember how at Thanksgiving the kids had their own table so I can see how she can feel "left out," but this is a totally different left out; she feels like she's left out because she's alive? Than I started to think about the title. What was being unveiled? The secret that they all were keeping from her? Then I thought about the funerals I had gone to. My first one was when my cousin Nicole passed away I was 7 years old and she was 8. Back then I had no idea that I had just lost one of my greatest friends. Being a child at a funeral there is a kind of secret about it because you can't really understand what's happening. Or for instance when my grandma passed away and my nephew wasn't really upset I was angry because I had lost someone very special to me. He was 5 years old he didn't know what was going on. That's what the author is trying to portray here. She is trying to show how being young you can't really understand the aspect of death or losing someone forever. Not until you grow up are these things "unveiled" to you.

Poem

The poem i'm doing this week is "Little Apocalypse." I love this poem! When I read it for the first time I didn't like it I thought it was dumb about bugs, but I did understand the last few lines about the horses. Then I was thinking about how it could be the end of the earth will affect even the smallest of life. That was how the title worked into it! It's not really a little apocalypse because there realy can't be a little one, but its a representation of how even the little things will still be affected as well. Like I discussed in class i think there is a little bit of each horse in the poem as well like war with the warrior robin, death with the graves, conquest by the grass and how it bows to everything, and famine is a stretch but like the bones washing away could be a long term cause of famine. The bones a brittle and have blown away because they were sickly. I really enjoyed this poem I thought it was a different perspective on what's to become of the world adn it's small things.

Poem

This week I'm doing "The Halo That Would Not Lite." It's a rather dark poem about a really sad subject. It's about a small child dying and not being able to have the chance to grow up. "Endless Childhood"is the biggest line in the whole poem because it finally shows what the whole poem is about. It's about this death of a child who's soul is in heaven as a child. I believe that when you die you're soul will go to Heaven with the experience of what happened in your life. And that's why this line is so big. The child died young and will go to Heaven having only seen a childhood of life and forever stuck there. As for the structure of the poem I think the indented lines are there for emphasis of the sorrow of the poem. Like it starts out, "When after many years, the raptor beak Let loose of you..." Then "He dropped your tiny body" is indented and has a very negative connotation. Dropping someones tiny body would be very traumatic and reading it shows how torn up the author really was. The next one also does the same thing, "left you like a finch." Anyone who is dropping or leaving a small child is clearly upset. These lines that are pulled over are bringing that emphasis over to how upset the author really is about the death of the young one. It makes me feel like the author wants the reader to feel that pain right along with her. Otherwise I really liked this poem she uses such descriptin that you can see like the swings swaying back and forth with no one in them. It reminds me of those creepy scary movies when the swings are barely moving adn are making a soft squicking sound. It's a great poem about a sad thing :-(