Love poems 1
Since everyone else is commenting on Fried's I might as well too…
I'm kind of disgusted by Atwood's poem, not because it's about sex,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but because I hate anything that has to do with eyes. But that's beside the point. At first the poem reminded me of fitting something into the eye of a needle and I thought it was implying sex was pleasurable,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but after reading Fried and others responses and looking into it more deeply I agree that sex was a painful experience for the speaker. I get the impression that sex is not natural for the speaker, because a fish hook into an eye isn't that natural- it's kind of an unusual image. I feel like she's also saying that it's something she can't get away from. Just as when a fish is hooked it doesn't have much chance of ever getting its life back, I think the speaker can't escape the relationship she is in. Maybe she just has a weird way of describing sex as a good thing… but I don't think so.
So I kind of upset because the website decided it would like to delete my response but I guess I will move on and write another one. I like the poem Poem With Toast The speaker desribes the love as simple yet him and his love seem to be having issues and pretending to be in love? Or they are trying to stay in love but love has become a routine instead of a feeling and a want. I liked how he describes love as simple such as starting the car or drinking a cup of coffee. It something that everyone wants but not everyone can have. Basically, he is saying that love may seem simple but it isn that simple. Pretending is actually what many do with love.
I tried to submit this about 2 minutes ago, but I think the website timed out on me.
I really enjoyed Dinner Tables and I think it because it reminded me of me speaker in this poem is an over-thinker, like me. He goes through the trouble of trying to decipher his love by analyzing aevery action and every moment that he thinks is significant; it almost as if it a research subject for him. In my opinion, the speaker is a man of low self-esteem but I also think he doing a better job than most men by actually trying to
understand a woman body language. At least he making an effort?
Bloch starts the poem with the harsh reality that the flame is gone in the relationship. The matches they have don't work and they never will. I believe they are having sex while she is coming up with this poem. She says, "I catch myself yawning." That's no good if you're the guy. Your self esteem should be gone if a girl yawns during sex. But not only did she yawn, she started looking out the window at a cat swatting at a sparrow. I bet she wishes she could swat her man off of her too. She also compares him to reading a book a teacher has assigned. But as a young student, you rather not read an old book you can hardly understand…
I really enjoy Emily's interpretation of Sex Without Love. Olds seems to say that people who have sex with out love are alone in the world and know it. The way Emily said it was great, "everyone is alone, but with sex it creates a sensual unity of souls." People and places are just factors. The truth is what makes the sex meaningful or not. I also noticed how he repeats how do they come to the, come to the… I thought this was really interesting because it really showed how the poet doesn't understand how people who have sex with out love can come before God. Intense stuff.
The poem Annabell Lee is to me, a poem about a lost love in an ancient land. The tone given by the speaker is that of a mysterious force, that has endured throughout the ages, and exists only to pass its story on. In the poem, the rhythm creates almost a mourning song. Assonance adds to this effect.
I thought it was kind of creepy, but that is to be expected with edgar allen poe. He says that he sleeps by her every night,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which either means he is a necrophiliac or he is dead and intombed also.
I am responding to fit into me by Margaret Atwood. Atwood poem describes either a physical or emotional relationship with a person in the speaker life. The title of this particular poetry packet leads me to assume that the poem references the speaker lover. Is the poem subject a physical, sexual relationship? It is possible, depending on your interpretation. I feel that the poem is referring to a emotionally trying relationship for the speaker. The speaker states that the subject fits into him/her like a hook. The connotations surrounding a hook suggest that the speaker relationship with the subject has (painfully) caught the speaker and that the speaker cannot escape its snare. I think this casts doubt on a strictly physical interpretation of the poem. In love poetry, in my experience, sex often has a sensual and glorified aura; not a subject or experience that is similar to a fishhook.
When I first looked at the poem fit into me, I thought it looked much too short to have any significance. Yet, once I read it, I found that each word was filled with purpose to create a great overall meaning. the word implicates a relationship between the speaker and the of the poem. In the second line the comparison made is gruesome and creates get contrast to the first line. The pairing of a hook and an eye is unusual, usually it is a hook and a fish. This brings about the fact that the two subjtects are a strange match. One being a fish hook indicating that the person is sharp and interesting, where as the other is an open eye which can indicate that this person has a different view point and opens the other person eye or that they are absolutely ordinary. This ambiguity of the last line leaves the reader wondering about this relationship.
I decided to talk about "Tired Sex" because we can only talk about it this week and because I actually understood it. The whole poem basically is one extended metaphor for trying to do something that just isn't going to happen. It starts off by saying that she is trying to strike a match, (not a coincidence of metaphor choice) on something that has been dormant, and the next part mentions the damp sulpher and the sodden cardboard, which makes the reader know that the attempt is in vain. The speaker then talks about how bored he or she is, and then makes a reference that I can't relate to, but everyone else in the class can, about the teacher telling the student to read the book because it is great literature. Even though I have never felt this apathy, I can assume that the speaker is saying that he or she is being urged to do something that he or she is not really keen on doing (not a coincidence, and that another pass has been made in vain.
Response to Jeff MAN Domozik analysis on Sex by Chana Bloch
I agree with Jeff: the poem is a big extended metaphor. One think that Jeff did mention that I find interesting is the perspective. The poem first starts out from the perspective of Understanding that the poem is about love, indicates that the unstrikable match is sourced from two people. Both the match and the box are wet and unusable which can be read as saying that the speaker feels both parties have failed in their attempts at putting a spark in their relationship. Later on in line 5, the perspective switches to This indicates that the speaker is reflecting on himself and his/her feelings on love. I appreciate Jeff humbleness toward literature, I am in the same boat.
Alrighty then banking on Annabel Lee by my main man Poe. So let start off by lookin at what everyone else said with Jullee Capshaw on the tonal switch at the death of Annabel Lee death of love = change in mood, sounds logical so we roll with it not with Andrew and Hannah on the whole lovey-dovey feel towards the end, it seems more along the lines of morose and macabre and I have no idea were a for deformed children comes from, so I leave it at that.
I think Bradley on the other hand has a better idea of what going on, especially the whole speaker assumption thing. Without Poe having explicitly explained the inspiration for the poem, you really can jump to any conclusions about this being about his wife as tempting as it is. There are simply too many misconceptions and inconsistencies, numerous friends of Poe having claimed to have been the inspiration for the poem; I definitely agree with Bradley that this is an attempt to rationalize the events, and also with Anabel that there are definite signs of the narrator being childish throughout the entirety of the poem.
Specifics aside, I would say that there is validity in connecting the poem to his personal life and poetic tendencies in a broader sense, most notably his obsession with the death of a beautiful woman. Poe life was stockpiled with the women closest to him dying of tuberculosis, and his wife, also his cousin, was certainly no exception dying from consumption at the age of 24.
However, ignoring this one can obviously take the poem to be about a strong love that the speaker believes was ripped apart due to jealousy-inspired divine intervention. While most argue that the love the two shared is undeniable, I wouldn bother to entertain the idea. Examining the more subtle characteristics of the poem instead of its blatant hyperbole, the speaker naivete is obvious.
The action of rationalizing Annabel death as the act of angels is, itself, a sign of immaturity and even insanity. While she obviously fell ill, the reality of people inevitable death is not enough for him, there must be some higher power that has ruined his happiness. In his child-like fantasy, his only way of coping with his inability to control his own circumstances is by tossing the blame upon someone else; the pain of helplessness without reason is simply too much to bear.
His interjection that was the reason is far too reminiscent of the schizophrenic Smeagol from LotR. Unable to continue living alone, he convinces himself that nothing could dissever [his] soul from the soul /of the beautiful Annabel Lee. He references the angels so often and continually repeats himself revealing begging one to question whether he is attempting to convince the audience or himself.
The most disturbing images, of course, are conjured up by the final stanza. He boasts so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side /Of my darling my darling my life and my bride. The implications of his coming to lie down with the cadaverous corpse of his beloved are ghastly and reveal the truly troubled nature of the poem.
Poe uses the word not something that most people would skip over and easily consider as interchangeable, which for a poet well-versed in the English language is not the case at all. Herein lies the true beauty of the poem. The word lay is the placing of something at horizontal rest, but Poe purposely chooses the word subtly alluding to the fact that much of what has been said could easily be a sickening fabrication by the obsessed.
Nowhere is a marriage or wedding or even a proposal of any sort mentioned, however, the word maiden, implying she was a virgin, is used in the first stanza. So why use the term to describe her if there was never a marriage? In fact, highborn kinsman came /And bore her away, clearly showing that she was forcefully taken away from him,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or perhaps forcefully taken back. So yet again, this begs the question use the word The term, while typically reserved for the soon to be wed also carries a,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], in this case reluctant, implication the consummation of marriage and the bride no longer being a maiden. The change in title of maiden in life to bride in post-mortem shows the sickly nature of the speaker and his tendency for necrophilia such is the sickeningly twisted beauty of Poe.
I read the poem End of April by Phillis Levin.
I liked this poem because it gave a lot of insight about life. It was very inspirational as the message that I got from the poem was that life goes on and we should not take what we have for grant.
I believe that the in the story is like a deceased lover, husband, child,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or friend. The speaker is shocked at this person death yet they realize that it is all apart of life. In the last two stanza specifically the speaker addresses that the is living in their heart. The speaker realized that this relationship is over but something new and beautiful will come from this death regardless of how much it might hurt, periodically, it opens up its wings, tearing me apart.
I was wondering what everyone thought the egg in the poem symbolized? I was thinking that is symbolized breaking away as the speaker and the person in the poem were growing apart.?
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