Ok so the struggle continues. I am so glad that I volunteered to recite on Tuesday because I do not think I could do two more days of this. Not there isn't enough to right on, I just feel constrained by this poem now. I want to read other poems by Komunyakaa and other authors. I've reached the point that I feel like i could write an 8 page paper on a single line of this poem. There is just too much to even write. Once you think you've figured it out, there's always more.
Going along with the idea of constraint though (bringing it back to the poem). There are actually quite a few words that point to the speaker feeling trapped. For example: "latch" in line one and "not to leave" in line two. Well that was way less than I thought, but I guess there is a general sense in the poem of the speaker trying to escape. He is not yet trying to escape his home or life, but almost move on from his childhood. The speaker is ready to be an adult, but he feels constrained by his parents and more specifically his lack of knowledge.
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