Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Sonnets-Second half
After reading through the rest of the sonnets, I have to say.....I didn't understand most of it. When I read a piece of poetry, I try to imagine and picture what the writer was trying to say, wheat he/she was feeling...and in all honesty I couldn't grasp a thing from hardly any of these pieces. Piece XXXVIII I actually got feeling out of. The lines flowed together and made sense. The narrator is describing the emotion, the way he/she feels like being "in the movie made ont eh site of Benedict Arnold's triumph. I get the feeling that it's about intimacy. Or possibly overcomming an obstacle in the relationship, perhaps an argument. The rest of the pieces, like LXXXI, don't make any sense. In the beginning it seems promising-"Musick strides through these poems/just as it strides through me!"- but then breaks off and falls off the deep end with " He is not "The Poems."/(my dream a drink with Lonnie Johnson we/discuss the code of the west)". Another thing I didn't get was the way that some sonnets seemed to cross over to the next page....or lines that seemed to continue into other poems...randomly. An example was XL and XLI. XL ends "My Aunt Annie and begin." and continues (seemingly) in XLI "banging around in a cigarette she isn't "in love"." You can tell because all the other pieces start with a capitol letter but those start off with a lower case letter. All in all I just didn't enjoy the readings. And to me, a successful poem is one that makes you think about what the writer is saying...these poems just made me wonder what the writer was on.
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