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Sunday, February 27, 2011

Song of the Powers- David Mason

      
       This poem is about the struggle for power and the sacrifices that come with it. I thought it was interesting that Mason took a simple game to create such a big message, although I think it was a little bit of a stretch and over thought, it was still interesting. Personally, the only time I use this game is to determine power when something can't be solved by talking. I've never thought about it any farther then that until this poem. Each of these objects can be used on one another to defeat the other, yet there is always something that can defeat them too. It's an endless circle that only ends up with being alone. Victory doesn't always mean happiness when you are destroying someone else.
      At the beginning of the first three stanzas, the first word is "mine" which is symbolizing that each aspect of the game is only concerned about themselves which eventually leads to them being alone. The structure is extremely basic with each of the first four stanzas having the same amount of lines, 6, and the same rhyming scheme. I think this poem falls short compared to the rest in the packet, it's a no-brainer and won't leave a lasting impression for me personally.

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I completely spaced these blogs for the past two weeks, sorry! :(

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Cottonmouth Country- Louise Gluck

Fish bones walked the waves off Hatteras
And there were other signs
That Death wooed us, by water, wooed us
By land: among the pines
An uncurled cottonmouth that rolled on moss
Reared in the polluted air.
Birth, not death, is the hard loss.
I know. I also left a skin there.
Louise Glück,

After rereading this poem a couple times I think Gluck is talking about dealing with negative change, which could be a death, but I think it's much bigger and broader than that. A cottonmouth it a large snake that lives in dry, barren places which paints an image for the reader. The pollution is referring to the negative changes that have spread to infect the rest of her life and how that "birth" of a change is even harder then losing something. The skin she left was referring to the cottonmouth again and how snakes shed their skins and leave parts of themselves behind to reveal the change of the new skin. This poem says so much in a way that you have to decipher and analyze which was interesting. I didn't like this poem as much as the others because I felt the writer was trying too hard to be creative and original, but it still had a good message.