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 :-(