Well I have been writing my second paper for CRAW poetry the passed couple of days and the thought of already diving into another seemed so much better yesterday. My head ached as I read "Sunday Afternoons" today, trying to find meaning behind the words, while also trying to pay attention to sound, themes, diction...the list goes on and on. Instead of trying to go at it all at once (hey I do have an entire month with this poem) I'm going to take it line by line.
When the author writes "They'd latch the screen doors," it makes me think of how my mother use to do the same thing. My father would always laugh because by latching the screen door, who is really being kept out or in, one can just push through the screen. I feel as though the author was also making a reference to the fact that to "latch the screen doors & pull venetian blinds shut" will actually not be able to keep the speaker trapped, as "They" would like.
I do have a few questions about these first two lines. Who is "they"? Who are "they" trying to keep in? Who are "they" telling not to leave? Why the "&" symbol and not the word "and"?
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