Sunday, October 10, 2010

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.

1 comment:

  1. When I first read it I thought it was dumb about bugs! That's why I make you all read poems twice! One time is not enough to form an opinion. I'm glad you gave it another chance--glad I did too!

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