This week’s poems were very interesting; I am not quite sure what to think of them. Out of all the poem’s, the one that I understood the most would have been “Marks” by Linda Pastan. The poem was short and too the point without all the other filler words throughout the poem confusing the reader. The last few lines of the poem were a little depressing however, “Wait til they learn I’m dropping out.” Throughout the poem, she was given decent remarks and still she is not happy with herself, no one can be perfect, yet she thinks nothing but perfect is acceptable to her.
Many of the poems I read this week I had trouble interpreting and understanding. “The Red Wheelbarrow” was a very short poem, and was very hard to understand the point they were trying to make because there was not enough information in the poem. With the poem “This is Just to Say,” the poem was very interesting, but I keep thinking that the poem is being used as a metaphor for something larger and a little more serious. “Pied Beauty” used a lot of colors and comparisons, however nothing really tied together for me in the poem to make it understandable in the end. “Better My Heart, Three-Personed God” is a very confusing poem, I still don’t understand what the poet is trying to say. Is he trying to say that he loves this person or that he wants to be divorced? The poem goes back and forth between good and bad and is very hard to understand which is the true feeling.
“Sound and Sense” was probably the most confusing poem this week. I understand that it is about criticism, and that it focuses on the problems of literary criticism. I read this poem over and over trying to get more out of it, but each time I got more and more confused.
2 comments:
Hey Jessica
I also loved the poem "Marks". I interpreted it a little differently than you did but that shows that everyone thinks differently. I actually thought it was more comical than serious. It reminded me of my mom at supper time. We all sit down for dinner and than everyone says “mom this is really good”. It takes about ten minutes before my dad finds something wrong with it. He is like “its good Hun, but you can use a little less salt next time”. My mom instantly is like I am never making dinner again. She makes it sound like she is dropping out because she got a good review but one bad remark. I actually thought that the poem was funny maybe I interpreted wrong but maybe it is something that each reader has to come up with for themselves.
Ashley
Hey Jessica,
Like you I interpreted the poem "Marks" seriously. My thoughts when I got to the end were, "what?! She is going to really do that? Wow..." Ashley did made a good point about how it can be taken comically. I guess it all depends on the interpreter! I hope things are going well for you!
Lanette
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