One of Sylvia Path's poems that stuck out to me, "The Tulips", proved to be quite the read. Like the last poet discussed, Elizabeth Bishop, Path shows a more free verse feel in her writing with more modern tones.
The overall feel of this poem seems to be rather peaceful. The lady in this recovery room or bed seems to be content and at peace with everything. She really just wants to lay there and accept where she is in that point in life. The nurses would come in and out of the room to care for her and the feelings of her became more and more grateful.
Then she goes on to talk about the contentment of herself even more by telling the reader she has no interest in the tulips at all. They remind her too much of the pain of the outside world. She then says she feels that the tulips are taking up oxygen out of the room and disturbing her isolation of peacefulness. So she outs them in captivity.
The tulips in the poem remind the lady of the terrible past in a time where she wants to find rest. She wants to take advantage of this time in this hospital like room and treasure the moment. She finds herself to treasure the "snow" like walls and the careful treatment of her wound. The tulips, in her mind, impose on her "at ease" thoughts and bring up the pain of the wound and the outside world.
A poem that stood out to me this week was a poem written by Sarah Lang called "For Tamara". Like "The tulips" the use of first person is also used in this poem. Both poems are about a different situation being analyzed by two different women. This poem by Lang is similar in the context of person but the way "For Tamera" is written, has a little bit more of better thought flow to it. The structure sets up the writer to answer her own questions opposed to Plath's just one person story telling narration.
http://lemonhound.com/2014/04/26/sarah-lang-from-for-tamara/
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Thursday, May 1, 2014
The fish and the hawthorn
Wow...talk about tragic past for this woman. If this kind of stuff happened to any of my parents, I think I would become a poet to. I can only imagine, this lady simply had a lot to write about. Strangely, she didn't write about her personal anguish all that much. She chose to write more in selective styles that weren't exactly in the style of mourning.
The contents of her poem contain deeper meanings to the subjects she wrote. For example, her poem "The Fish" has a ridiculous amount of figurative language in it. Lines such as "He was speckled with barnacles, fine rossettes of lime, and infested with tiny-white sea lice" and "I thought of the course white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails" give the reader a deeper look into the life of the fish of how worn out the fish really was when he was caught. "He didn't fight. He hadn't fought at all. He hung at a grunting weight" shows that the fish was completely through with his life. He had given up. The overall tone for the fisherman was sympathy. The fisherman somehow felt the pain for this fish and by the end of the poem, he lets the fish go on his merry way. I guess you could say the undertone of this poem could be a person that is completely worn out by the life. They have gone through it all. They have completely given up and then another trial comes and they just don't fight at all. They simply just let it go. Finally, life throws them a bone, so to speak and lets them go.
George Stanley wrote a poem on Lemonhound that caught my eye because it had similar structure to Bishop's poem "The Fish". The whole poem has a deeper meaning within it. The actual poem "The White Hawthorn" speaks of a flower and the attractions around it but has a deeper meaning of the life presented around it as it ages.
http://lemonhound.com/2014/04/21/george-stanley-two-poems/
The contents of her poem contain deeper meanings to the subjects she wrote. For example, her poem "The Fish" has a ridiculous amount of figurative language in it. Lines such as "He was speckled with barnacles, fine rossettes of lime, and infested with tiny-white sea lice" and "I thought of the course white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails" give the reader a deeper look into the life of the fish of how worn out the fish really was when he was caught. "He didn't fight. He hadn't fought at all. He hung at a grunting weight" shows that the fish was completely through with his life. He had given up. The overall tone for the fisherman was sympathy. The fisherman somehow felt the pain for this fish and by the end of the poem, he lets the fish go on his merry way. I guess you could say the undertone of this poem could be a person that is completely worn out by the life. They have gone through it all. They have completely given up and then another trial comes and they just don't fight at all. They simply just let it go. Finally, life throws them a bone, so to speak and lets them go.
George Stanley wrote a poem on Lemonhound that caught my eye because it had similar structure to Bishop's poem "The Fish". The whole poem has a deeper meaning within it. The actual poem "The White Hawthorn" speaks of a flower and the attractions around it but has a deeper meaning of the life presented around it as it ages.
http://lemonhound.com/2014/04/21/george-stanley-two-poems/
William Carlos Williams
Have you ever decided to sit down and watch a movie with a friend or family member and you get about 3/4 of the way through, only to find out something came up and the movie cannot be finished? Say this movie was a total cliffhanger and not seeing the end of the film would drive you crazy until the next time you decided to sit down and view it again. For most people this would be total travesty.
Ok, let's take it one step further. have you ever been so caught up in a movie or piece of literature that had the makings of a great ending but instead the piece just ends? It leaves the reader with so many questions and they are left in total confusion.
For some of the poems written by William Carlos Williams, they tend to give off this exact feeling for the reader. "The Red Wheelbarrow", for example, is a very short promising statement or poem. "So much depends upon the red wheelbarrow, glazed with rain beside the white chickens." Sure, this is a complete thought, but what is he writing about? What is he trying to do with just this one statement? What happens to the red wheelbarrow? Some people would go insane over lines like these because the poem doesn't give off any more information than it needs to. William's takes a step out from norm when he writes little statements like these and turns people's heads in the process.
This style of poetry is really popular in today's culture. In my opinion, poetry in this style urge a person to think rather than everything set out before them. Don't get me wrong, most poetry of any style gets me thinking in any which way. But I guess the fact that most of the thinking relies on the abrupt ending leaves me to question more about the purpose rather than what the figurative language expressed in other works. Jennica Harper writes a poem by the name of "Every Good Boy" that has a very modern tone to its alliteration. She expresses the subject of the title and then leaves the reader with an ending that leaves the reader wanting more. The poem is really a bunch of generalized statements but its the way the author ends the poem that wants the reader wanting more.
http://lemonhound.com/2014/04/23/jennica-harper-three-poems/
Ok, let's take it one step further. have you ever been so caught up in a movie or piece of literature that had the makings of a great ending but instead the piece just ends? It leaves the reader with so many questions and they are left in total confusion.
For some of the poems written by William Carlos Williams, they tend to give off this exact feeling for the reader. "The Red Wheelbarrow", for example, is a very short promising statement or poem. "So much depends upon the red wheelbarrow, glazed with rain beside the white chickens." Sure, this is a complete thought, but what is he writing about? What is he trying to do with just this one statement? What happens to the red wheelbarrow? Some people would go insane over lines like these because the poem doesn't give off any more information than it needs to. William's takes a step out from norm when he writes little statements like these and turns people's heads in the process.
This style of poetry is really popular in today's culture. In my opinion, poetry in this style urge a person to think rather than everything set out before them. Don't get me wrong, most poetry of any style gets me thinking in any which way. But I guess the fact that most of the thinking relies on the abrupt ending leaves me to question more about the purpose rather than what the figurative language expressed in other works. Jennica Harper writes a poem by the name of "Every Good Boy" that has a very modern tone to its alliteration. She expresses the subject of the title and then leaves the reader with an ending that leaves the reader wanting more. The poem is really a bunch of generalized statements but its the way the author ends the poem that wants the reader wanting more.
http://lemonhound.com/2014/04/23/jennica-harper-three-poems/
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