Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Response to Bicentennial
This poem goes back and forth with innocent joy and dark undertones of melancholy. Well-written, I love the flow of the words but I admit I don't care for the discontinuous timeline of events; leaping from childhood to adulthood and back. Still, I enjoyed it immensely. The ending seemed like it was gonna be happy but then we get hit with that daddy who left him bit, and it brings us down again, just when we were feeling elated. Makes me wonder if this is autobiographical, if so why tell it in different epochs? If it's not, what he's trying to do with the up and down of emotions?
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9. In this stanza the author compares the bicentennial to be targeted by love. It seems that the author feels like the bicentennial is very special and starts to fully embrace the memory as his neighbor lifts him up on his shoulders.
ReplyDeletein stanza 5 i got the sense that the author is trying to show the difference in value by means of perspective. the example being a coin, the author in this stanza tells us he is a coin collector and so is the nun but it has a letter "r" on it and he proceeds to ask why and she said it reminds her of a boy whom she had dated and went to the fair. obviously the nun put those feelings away and choose the path of the church but the author says he still had the impression she still loved him. but what really gets mes when at the very end he says that both knowing the value of the coin how much less it now was engraved.
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