Sunday, January 23, 2011
It was a Dream
The 5th line says, "whirling in a gyre of rage." I looked up gyre and it means circle basically. So I can really see a dream like figure yelling and swirling her finger, something like a disappointing grandmother would do. After that, this poem got really tragic...surprise. She pleaded with her self, not understanding what she did wrong. But the feeling I got was that she really wanted an answer. Like something was going wrong or had gone wrong and she was asking herself what to do next. Trying to find the answer, but to no avail. The last few lines, "and screamed as long as i could her her This. This. This.," make me feel like her greater self doesn't want the lesser even asking. Like, as long as she was looking to something different then herself as the answer, she wouldn't find it. Another thing that I noticed was how her greater self was described with "wild hair" and "wild eyes." Not really sure why. Just something that stuck out to me.
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I think you just touch the surface on this one. :) What's underneath??
ReplyDeleteI liked how you saw this poem. I did this one too and when I was doing some research on Lucille Clifton and found out that a deformity of extra fingers runs in her family. This part of her life was tied into line four, when she says, "with her extra finger." This helped me understand that part better. The "wild hair" and "wild eyes" also stuck out to me. It would seem that her "greater self" wouldn't be descibed as wild.
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