This is just to say

THIS IS DEFINITELY MY FAVORITE POEM SO FAR. it is so so so so so cute. This poem is simple. This poem does not have an over complicated meaning. This poem does not have a strict rhyming scheme. This poem is short.  yes. this is my favorite poem of the bunch.

This poem is very cute because it has such an adorable concept sort of saying “hey i ate the plums in the freezer.. I think they were yours! but they are delicious”.  I can see a husband saying this to his wife or something.  It makes you think that the narrator is the mischievous type.  But It also seems that the author is the adorable cute type that can get away with anything.

This poem is definitely simple.  It tells exactly what happened.  You don’t need to search every other word to get a hint of what the poem means and that is perhaps what makes this poem quite distinguishable from other poems.  I love simplicity.  There is no hidden meaning behind ” I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox”.  There is no meaning hiding under “and which you were probably saving for breakfast”.  It SIMPLY means exactly what it says “and which you were probably saving for breakfast”.  And also, as you might guess, there is not hidden meaning in “Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold”.  In short, there is no guess work to what the author is saying.

Although we can not guess what the author is saying, something are left untold.  We do not know who the author is. We can assume the speaker is a male, because of the author’s name.  Also, We do not know of the authors age.  This poem almost seems to witty to be a young boy, but seems as something a young boy would do.  So my guess would be that the speaker is a witty, and lovable gentleman. We might also wonder who the author is speaking to.  He may be saying this to his love if he is a man.  He may be saying this to his mother or father if he is a boy.  However, there are not many clues to tell us. This sort of leaves this poem as a mystery.

I don’t know if the author intended for this poem to be mysterious.  Initially i thought that this poem is simple on purpose, as if it is to mock all of these over-complicated poems.  Now, however, I am under the impression that the author wanted that air of mystery… Maybe he just wanted to torture his readers that would have to write poetry responses on this silly website

The rhyming scheme is also simple. Not over-done or forced. The word “Eaten” on the first line of the first stanza  rhymes with “In” on the 3rd line of the first stanza.    The word “which” kind of rhymes with the word “saving”, but not really… haha   and “me” sort of ryhmes with “sweet”.   Nice. …

The Halo That Would Not Light

THis is very interesting.  I actually really enjoyed the form of the poem.

I supoosed that the first thing i have noticed about this poem is that each stanza, with an exception of two in the middle, has two lines.  The stanza’s that do not contain two, are both single lines. The first line is “With linden leaves in a child’s carboard box.”  The second line is a line that says, “Tonight the wind is hover-”.
The first single line stanza doesn’t have anything very cool about it.  The second single line stanza, however, is very interesting to me, in my opinion.  “Tonight the wind is hover-”, doesn’t seem grammatically correct.  Isn’t hover a verb? It doesn’t seem to agree, and I am actually very sure that hover is a verb…  THis is very weird and Im not sure what significance this sort of grammatical strangeness has.  What am I supposed to think??? hm…

Anyway, there are a few other formatting quirks that I find to be intriguing.  The first line of the second stanza is right  aligned. Everything in this poem is left aligned, with a few exceptions.  I feel that this really brings attention to the poem.  Style is a very manipulative friend to have.  Also, the 3 stanza also has its first line right aligned.

Now, there are two stanzas that are strictly left aligned. This would be the first stanza, and the 6th. THis of course does not also include the single line stanza’s which are also left aligned.

THis author seems to really enjoy working with form.

The third to last stanza has its second line right aligned.  THis is also true for the second to last stanza and even the very effective third stanza.  I wonder why the author would do that?  it seems very strange to me. These lines are

“As certain as invisible as

Red Scarves silking endlessly

From a magician’s hollow hat

And the spectacular catastrophe

Of your endless childhood

Is done.”

Although I am not extremely aware of why the author would do this, i feel very inclined to say that it may work in being sort of effective.  The line the I find to affect me the most is the very last line.  This line is “Is done”.  What I find about this line, is that it is very interesting. It is very interesting because the line “is done”, is stating that something (an endless childhood) is done.  So as the poem is talking about something being endless, it ends with the idea of the childhood being done, as in finished.  This line has a period and it is in its own way saying that there is nothing you can do about it  being done because this is the end of the essay.  There is even a period which is the primer on house paint.

Oh my goodness. This is a very carefully thought out poem in terms of structure.  Either that, or the author simply was so careless that everything happened to work out.

Wild Geese

The first thing i noticed about this poem is the author’s name.

her name is dorothy..so immediately i thought of the wizard of oz. i think that an authors name really affects how the reader can view the poem. especially because poems are meant to be over-read, and mis-interpreted. so if i wanted to say that the authors name makes me think of the wizard of oz..i really could. people who analyze poetry are so weird like that.

this poem does a lot of rhyming. i have not even read it yet, but i know it rhymes because the syntax of the stanzas is set so that the rhyming words stick out more than the rest. the ryhming words are at the end of every second sentence of every stanza. soon rhymes with moon. cry rhymes with sky. sun rhymes with done. brake rhymes with lake. and free ryhmes with victory.

an example of this from the poem would be

“Clear on the frosty night

I hear your homing cry

A lonely, last salute

A trumpet in the sky.

Now let us talk about the meaning of the poem… Well.. this poem is about a goose. A goose!… oh okay.. GEESE!!! I think I might have a terrible taste in poetry, because i Have no appreciation for the description of a goose.. i mean geese. Who does that? I don’t know. I understand that there is a definite beauty in geese, as well as anything that can be found in nature. And i also understand that most poets also see this. ANd obviously.. poets are often so captivated by such beautiful parts of nature that they of feel the need to materialize such beautiful things given to us by god, by petrifying such moments into words. The problem is, somewhere inside the translation from life to words, the beauty ( at least for me) gets lost.

This poem really does not do it for me. However, I imagine that if i were in the author’s shoes when she wrote this, I would have felt so moved and compelled to write as well. A wise man once said “some things are better left unsaid”… haha

Okay okay.. Maybe i’m being too harsh. I haven’t even read the actual poem yet. I’ve only assumed that it will suck. That is another thing about poetry… What often determines if a person will like a piece of art, is if the person has an open attitude previous to reading it. If i were more open, i may actually enjoy this poem… so… let me open my mind and enjoy this… considering that i have not read it yet.

oh…

wow.

that was actually very very good. I feel like a jerk no.

The moral of this blog is… don’t judge. don’t shoot it down before you try it. don’t judge a book by it’s cover. …

am i missing anything here?

ha. The phrases of each line alone do not work… but the fusion of all them rhythmically working together is gorgeous. Okay. Now i understand the art of poetry. wow =]