Thursday, October 7, 2010
General Overview
As the poem "Elegy for my Father, Who Is Not Dead" continues, I forgot the name of the title of the poem and as I read through it, I was pictured the father as being dead. But the first two lines of the poem represent how the poem is a foreshadowing. Moreover, the speaker desciribes how his father is ready for death, but how he, himself is not. I believe that this is only due to the person's age. I think that the speaker would be pretty old because usually it's old people who believe they have done everything they can in life and now they are ready for death. But the speaker says specifically, "He's ready. I am not." This is mostly due to age and the speaker is simply believes that he is too young to die and follow his father into heaven. However, one thing I am not certain about is if the speaker's father wants him to follow the father into heaven right after he as died, or if he is going to paitiently wait for the speaker to die so they can be reunited in heaven. In my opinion, the second one seems like the right one.
Delight in Disorder
In the poem "Delight in Disorder", I feel that maybe I am within the cone of meaning of the poem, but also, I may be way outside, but I'm going to go ahead and give it a shot. Throughout the poem, the speaker seems to be describing all the clothing a woman is wearing and seems to have just thrown on. He describes clothes such as her scarf, "tempestuous petticoat", dress, and more. But when I get to the line which says, "A fine distraction", I am under the impression that the speaker is saying that under all this disorderly, but delightful, clothing, there is completely different person. The speaker is saying that this person is just trying to cover up who they really are by putting all this clothing on them to appear different. Many appear try to act like someone who they are not, and the author is describing this kind of person in the poem. They may want to appear wealthy, beautiful, etc. But in reality, they are none of these things.
Crazy twist!
In the poem "Edward", the pattern of the poem is one tool that helps me identify the irony of the poem. So firstly, I will describe the pattern. Each staza is broken up into Edward saying something to his mom, his mom replying, then the next staza is introduced. We know who is talking because the two call each other by name when talking to one another. However, here is where we understand the irony of the poem party through the pattern. Whenever Edward says "Mother, Mother", that is the only way her refers to her. He never calls her dear or any other word that shows much affection. However, when he confesses that he killed his father, he refers to his father as "my father dear." This represents how he still had affection for his father when he killed him meaning he did not do it out of anger or hatred of his father because he had affection for him. Then the last line of the poem is what solidifies this statement and expands on it further by Edward saying, "Such counsels you gave to me, O." In this line, Edward is saying that his mother was the one who told him to go kill his father. This is where the irony plays in because the mom is never really seen as being the bad person of the poem until this final line.
Almost like reading something else
In the poem "Lonely Hearts", the poem is in first person so I instantly begin to think that the speaker is solely one person. I think that the speaker is just putting out all these descriptions about themself write them as if they appear in the "personals" section of a newsapaper. But then I begin to look at the form and pattern of the poem and realize that this is not the case. Each stanza is indeed in first person, but they are all about different descriptions of different people. They are not just based around one person. Also, since these descriptions seperate people are putting out have their own stanza, I then begin to realize that I am almost reading just directly out of the "personals" section from a newspaper. However, the last line of each stanza bring about the central idea of an unrealistic expectation. Each stanza either ends with asking if they live in London or if they can make their wish come true. So the person reading these little personals is the one having the unrealistic expectations.
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