Well, this is the poem we talked about in class, so I may not be to original on here...but there is one thing that struck me when I reread it tonight. The thing that I noticed was the setting. The poem starts with the line "in the desert." Just the fact that the setting is in the first line makes me feel that it must be pretty important. So throughout the poem there is a feeling of bitter sadness, but also a baren lonelyness because of the setting.
The thing I'm stuck on is why the subject is eating his bitter heart. My first thoughts are that he is accepting his state. He is accepting that he is a bitter person. But I don't know why he would do that because it seems like such an aweful thing. But that seems to be the theme of these peoms, darkness.
I just feel such a lack of love but mostly a lack of emotion.
Hey, I never pick dark poems. I don't know what you're talking about. I think his heart is bitter and he's okay with it, but not really. That's my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI love this poem and i completely agree that its definitely depressing!
ReplyDeleteI think it's actually uplifting. It tells me never to be okay with the bitterness that inevitable grows inside me. Don't eat that heart unless you really don't like it!
ReplyDeleteI disagree with the part about the dessert only because i saw something on tv that said that the dessert was actually more full of life than many other areas. I took it as just because it looks barren does not mean it necessarily is. the loneliness you said might be like depressed people who even though there is so much love around them they cannot see it.
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