This poem is for last week i totally forgot.
Before
I opened my mouth
I noticed them sitting there
as orderly as frozen fish
in a package.
Slowly water began to fill the room
though I did not notice it
till it reached
my ears
and then I heard the sounds
of fish in an aquarium
and I knew that though I had
tried to drown them
with my words
that they had only opened up
like gills for them
and let me in.
Together we swam around the room
like thirty tails whacking words
till the bell rang
puncturing
a hole in the door
where we all leaked out
They went to another class
I suppose and I home
where Queen Elizabeth
my cat met me
and licked my fins
till they were hands again.
I think this poem is from the point of view of the teacher. The teacher is talking about poetry and does not think any of the students care or want to listen, but without her noticing she has caught their attention and they are starting to get intrigued. The whole class is listening to the teacher probably having an intense discussion and they are "swimming" around the room together. then the class ends and everything becomes normal again. This is saying that this does not happen all the time that the students normally just sit there uninterested but this class they became interested. that is why it is almost a fairytale and why she compares them to fish. and it explains why at the end of the poem the teacher goes back to his house and everything is normal again that is why the cat is in the story because the cat gives the end of the poem a normalcy for the author/teacher. i did not really like this poem. i just did not find it interesting maybe it is because i cannot relate to the point of view the poem is told from.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Thanksgiving poem
It is a circle poem.
Pie
Apple
Fall
Beige
suits
Work
Smart
Math
Geometry
Circle
Diameter
3.145
Pi
Pie
Apple
Fall
Beige
suits
Work
Smart
Math
Geometry
Circle
Diameter
3.145
Pi
Saturday, November 13, 2010
A Work of Artifice
artifice: crafty or subtle deception
the title comes from the tree having its potential greatly reduced but the tree does not know this. The tree could become so much more but the trees caretaker "carefully" made sure the tree would never become what it has the possibility to become. The poet is making a statement on how this happens to women and this can bee seen in the last line where the poem stops talking about the tree and starts to transition into women by saying the line "the bound feet, the crippled brain, the hair in curlers." women from a young age have their ability "carefully" so that the women do not even realize it because it is so subtle. it is said that women are lucky to be able to stay home and watch children and have the money brought home by their husbands. the author says this in the line
"It is your nature
to be small and cozy,
domestic and weak;
how lucky, little tree,
to have a pot to grow in."
The women could go out and do so much with their lives they could be scientists or engineers or doctors but it is their "nature to be domestic and weak." The women should feel blessed that their lives have been made simple by everyone else after all they "have a pot to grow in." Never to grow beyond that pot they know just how far they can go before they are stopped and then they just stay there never reaching their full potential. But the women are always safe they always have their pot.
I love the line "the hands you love to touch." Because the Poet did not write this poem for women she wrote it so the men could see. She did not want women to read it she wanted men to read it and see that they were capping the potential of women everywhere. She wrote it so the men could relate to this problem it is not just women everywhere to them it is not an unrealistic thing the problem has a face. the problem takes the face of their wives or mothers the women in their world's that mean the most to them. They can ignore a faceless problem but they cannot ignore their loved ones. My favorite line is "the hair in curlers" because who would think that curled hair is a sign of being women being held down. But it is true women curl their hair so it looks good so they can find a guy. This shows that it is not just the men who are holding women down it is also women. Mothers teach girls how to curl their hair so they can go into the world and find a husband who loves their curled hair and obtain their cozy little pots to grow in.
the title comes from the tree having its potential greatly reduced but the tree does not know this. The tree could become so much more but the trees caretaker "carefully" made sure the tree would never become what it has the possibility to become. The poet is making a statement on how this happens to women and this can bee seen in the last line where the poem stops talking about the tree and starts to transition into women by saying the line "the bound feet, the crippled brain, the hair in curlers." women from a young age have their ability "carefully" so that the women do not even realize it because it is so subtle. it is said that women are lucky to be able to stay home and watch children and have the money brought home by their husbands. the author says this in the line
"It is your nature
to be small and cozy,
domestic and weak;
how lucky, little tree,
to have a pot to grow in."
The women could go out and do so much with their lives they could be scientists or engineers or doctors but it is their "nature to be domestic and weak." The women should feel blessed that their lives have been made simple by everyone else after all they "have a pot to grow in." Never to grow beyond that pot they know just how far they can go before they are stopped and then they just stay there never reaching their full potential. But the women are always safe they always have their pot.
I love the line "the hands you love to touch." Because the Poet did not write this poem for women she wrote it so the men could see. She did not want women to read it she wanted men to read it and see that they were capping the potential of women everywhere. She wrote it so the men could relate to this problem it is not just women everywhere to them it is not an unrealistic thing the problem has a face. the problem takes the face of their wives or mothers the women in their world's that mean the most to them. They can ignore a faceless problem but they cannot ignore their loved ones. My favorite line is "the hair in curlers" because who would think that curled hair is a sign of being women being held down. But it is true women curl their hair so it looks good so they can find a guy. This shows that it is not just the men who are holding women down it is also women. Mothers teach girls how to curl their hair so they can go into the world and find a husband who loves their curled hair and obtain their cozy little pots to grow in.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
The secret
I do not understand why this poem is broken up like this. all the stanzas do not seem to end on a complete thought. some end on a complete thought like the first but some don't like the second. The line "I love them for finding what i can't " i think says that the reason he writes poetry is to try to find his own meaning for life and he cannot seem to find it. but the author is happy that even though he cannot find it for a second he can help someone else to find meaning. I like how simple this poem is. she just says what she wants to say there are no big words or stuff that confuses. Denise just says it and says it nicely. It makes me think she is probably not stuck up like some people who feel they need to use huge words to make them look smarter. she is not trying to hide her ideas behind fancy things because she does not think they are good enough. she has something to say if you don't like it it is no skin of her back.
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