Love at First Sight

After frantically remembering at 3:30 that I needed to go to Professor Mulrooney's office to chose my poem for our recitation exercise, I ran from Lehy (where I reside with my roommate Jeff) all the way to Fenwick to find only two other students patiently waiting.  Turns out Professor Mulrooney forgot that we were coming and had to print out the list of twenty poems on the fly and post it on his door.  I walked over to the list and immediately began to scan for authors I knew.  I feverishly flipped through my Norton Anthology of Poetry and tried to see which poem caught my eye.  After many page turnings and whirl wind reads of some pretty complex poems, I began just to look at the titles.  The one that stuck out to me was "Sunday Afternoons" by Yusef Komunyakaa.  Sunday Afternoons are where I often contemplate life and have had some very fond memories, so despite the poems length I signed my name away, making a month long commitment to this poem.  Instead of a written journal or a typed word document, I decided to create a blog to record my thoughts on the poem instead.  I will use this blog to reflect upon "Sunday Afternoons" daily and will had photos and videos along the way.

Today I read the poem only twice, and compared what I envision to occur on a Sunday Afternoon and what the author actually writes about in the poem.  While not what I would have written about, the author uses some great imagery that allowed me to vividly see in my mind what (I currently think) he is writing about.  I can see kids running around and enjoying the wilderness, being curious in their ways.

My past girlfriends have said I am afraid of commitment, but I look forward to my month with this poem, so I can dissect it word by word, line by line, stanza by stanza and attempt to piece together what the author truly wants the reader to get out of it.