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 Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:58 pm
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I'm no more your mother
Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind's hand.
All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square
Whitens and swallows it's dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:08 pm
I have NO idea what this is about...
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:12 pm
Alright, now for the questions:
1. What is it about?
The morning?
2. Who is “speaking”?
A person observing the morning?
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:26 pm
Wait...no, it's about motherhood. xp And the person who is speaking is the mother of the baby being talked about indirectly...
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:34 pm
FyoraSilverwolf Wait...no, it's about motherhood. xp And the person who is speaking is the mother of the baby being talked about indirectly... Yeah, still good poem.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:34 pm
3. What poetic and sound devices are used?
Alliteration, metaphor, simile
4. Is there a major symbol? Explain
No, other than it's actually talking about a baby.
5. Is there an important metaphor? Explain.
Not really
6. Identify a striking image or emotion
The image of a baby and caring for it is evident.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:37 pm
FyoraSilverwolf 3. What poetic and sound devices are used? Alliteration, metaphor, simile 4. Is there a major symbol? Explain No, other than it's actually talking about a baby. 5. Is there an important metaphor? Explain. Not really 6. Identify a striking image or emotion The image of a baby and caring for it is evident. I'm guessing this was a homework assignment.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:38 pm
Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Wait...no, it's about motherhood. xp And the person who is speaking is the mother of the baby being talked about indirectly... Yeah, still good poem. I don't like it, it's too difficult for me. And yes, it's a homework assignment.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:46 pm
FyoraSilverwolf Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Wait...no, it's about motherhood. xp And the person who is speaking is the mother of the baby being talked about indirectly... Yeah, still good poem. I don't like it, it's too difficult for me. And yes, it's a homework assignment. Not my type of poem either, but it's still good. If you want an easier poem to dissect, read Ozymandius by Percy Shelley or any of those other romantic era poems, just don't read "A Few Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey" that is a long poem and somewhat complex.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:53 pm
Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Wait...no, it's about motherhood. xp And the person who is speaking is the mother of the baby being talked about indirectly... Yeah, still good poem. I don't like it, it's too difficult for me. And yes, it's a homework assignment. Not my type of poem either, but it's still good. If you want an easier poem to dissect, read Ozymandius by Percy Shelley or any of those other romantic era poems, just don't read "A Few Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey" that is a long poem and somewhat complex. It wasn't my idea to read it. confused
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:58 pm
FyoraSilverwolf Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Wait...no, it's about motherhood. xp And the person who is speaking is the mother of the baby being talked about indirectly... Yeah, still good poem. I don't like it, it's too difficult for me. And yes, it's a homework assignment. Not my type of poem either, but it's still good. If you want an easier poem to dissect, read Ozymandius by Percy Shelley or any of those other romantic era poems, just don't read "A Few Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey" that is a long poem and somewhat complex. It wasn't my idea to read it. confused I know. I am merely suggesting a better poem that would be much easier to read and probably much better in quality.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 5:59 pm
Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Wait...no, it's about motherhood. xp And the person who is speaking is the mother of the baby being talked about indirectly... Yeah, still good poem. I don't like it, it's too difficult for me. And yes, it's a homework assignment. Not my type of poem either, but it's still good. If you want an easier poem to dissect, read Ozymandius by Percy Shelley or any of those other romantic era poems, just don't read "A Few Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey" that is a long poem and somewhat complex. It wasn't my idea to read it. confused I know. I am merely suggesting a better poem that would be much easier to read and probably much better in quality. I have enough already. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:00 pm
FyoraSilverwolf Arios V FyoraSilverwolf Arios V FyoraSilverwolf I don't like it, it's too difficult for me. And yes, it's a homework assignment. Not my type of poem either, but it's still good. If you want an easier poem to dissect, read Ozymandius by Percy Shelley or any of those other romantic era poems, just don't read "A Few Lines Composed Above Tintern Abbey" that is a long poem and somewhat complex. It wasn't my idea to read it. confused I know. I am merely suggesting a better poem that would be much easier to read and probably much better in quality. I have enough already. sweatdrop Ok, never mind then.
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