Blog 10 poetry

Option 3 "My Papa's Waltz" This poem is about at boy who has an unusual time being close to his  Papa. The terms used are contradictory because the description the "Waltz" seems almost abusive. "Every step you missed / my right ear scraped your buckle" Indicates that the father is very drunk and has a grip on the boy, the boy's ear is as tall as his father's belt buckle and he is insisting on doing this dance which drags the boy around. Also there is reference to the mother being very angry with this behavior, "My mothers countenance / could not unfrown itself" she is clearly upset from this statement and the boy is aware of that but he holds on. Although its hard he enjoys it because it makes his dad happy. The last stanza is rather sad because there is a longing for the boy to be close to the father however painful it may be

You beat me on the head
with a palm caked hard with dirt
Then waltzed me off to bed
still clinging to your shirt

the beating on the boys head is to the beat of the music and the reader understands that loving this man is painful but to the boy its worth it, he does not want to let go of him all the way to his bed he holds on to the father's shirt and does not want to let go. 

Blog #9 Poetry

Loved these poems this week. I am blown away at the beauty. Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 is an English Poem and Abba rhyme scheme. It is, at first glance negative and the comparisons are strange, "My mistresses eyes are nothing like the sun / Coral is far more red than her lips /".  This could not be a flattering poem about the love of a man for a woman! However we soon see that although she is not perfect compared to some things that are seemingly perfection in their discriptions of beauty, he loves her and she is perfect to him. "I grant I never saw a goddess go / ... and yet by heaven I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare".   He sees her and he loves her for everything she is.
Donne's Holy Sonnet 14 is an Italian poem it is Abba rhyme scheme. The meaning of "three-personed God is father-son-spirit and that is catholic in nature. Donne's sin is such that his god must "....break, blow, burn and make me new" however, at the same time he states to god "I am betrothed to your enemy..." which is to say he is a sinner and that makes us know that he cannot be without sin and in order to be united with God he is hoping to be changed and made a new. The only way to make him new is for God completely take him over "take me to you, and imprison me,for I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free " This indicates that he will never be without sin while he is human. His humanness causes him to commit the same offenses again and again. 

BLOG #8 Poetry

Nov 4, 2012 (edited)  -  Public

Blog #8 Poetry
All Poems in this weeks reading were about death. That moment in time when this world ends and another begins. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by Jarrell was disturbing when he quotes "When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose" the harshness of war is inconceivable and the clear disregard for human life is summed up in this sentence. The language Jarrell uses makes the point of this and the reader understands war better after reading it, there is a sad cold feeling to this poem.  In Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" she describes the journey of death while still earth bound and the sights she sees, she speaks of death being civil "We slowly drove--He knew no haste....my labor and my leisure too/for his Civility. This concept of sight seeing with death is wonderful. When we think of death we do not think of it as an individual who will takes us to sights we hold dear to us before we leave this world. This poem moves the reader and the feeling is joyful. Heading into Eternity on a carriage pulled by horses. The rhyme scheme was wonderful and made the poem stand out.

 

I did this the 4th of November but I just realized it was not on  my blog !!