Friday, March 25, 2011
New poem
This week I'm doing "The Cat." I really liked this poem because it says a lot about leaving into the unknown. Which is what all of us are approaching here soon. This one is about someone leavng the author into something they're unsure is the "right" thing to do. That's why the author said "do not go you'll only be trapped and bewitched and will suffer in vain." The decision being made here isn't a good one and there is no turning back once chosen. then later in the poem it tells the outcome of the decision, "she dissolved, a black cat in the black night, she just dissolved and no one saw her again. Not even she herself." The other wants the reader to understand how desolate the choice was. That's why there's repition to show the helplessness and loss. I believe the poem is titled so because black cats are associated with the night and dark or bad luck, so it's a metaphor and the cat is the person making the decision and the window is the choice. But the window is black so it's unknown what goes on in there, so the curious black cat goes and is then lost. The person making the decision loses herself and is lost forever. This is a free verse poem with 6 stanzas all of different length.
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