"You Fit into Me"

“You Fit Into Me” by Margaret Atwood is an amusing poem which attracted my attention and encouraged me to read it deeply irrespective of its shortness. By using very few words, Atwood was smart in shifting the readers expectations from positive image to a painful one. While reading "you fit into me / like a hook into an eye" (lines 1-2) we see a picture of two happy people. In the next line she tells us that their relation was ended.. the hook is a fishhook and the eye that it fits is into an open eyeball...

Yes, I got disappointed to know that the poem “You Fit Into Me” reflects a painful and sad ending between two lovers. But, for my LOVE I will always say “You Fit Into Me”.

“Mending Wall"

For the neighbor with the “pine trees” the wall is of great significance, as it provides a sense of security and privacy. He believes that although two people can still be friendly neighbors, some form of barrier is needed to separate them and “wall in” the personal space and privacy of the individual. This is shown through his repeated saying, “good fences make good neighbors” (line 27-45). The neighbor believes that a fence is needed to separate everything because that is how it has always been, and that is what he was taught.
Behind the literal representation of building walls, there is a deeper metaphoric meaning, which reflects people's attitudes towards others. It reflects the social barriers people build, to provide a sense of personal security and comfort, in the belief that barriers are a source of protection, which will make people less vulnerable to their fears.

"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night"

"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" by Dylan Thomas is a poem about a son's reaction and feelings about his father dying. The father is still alive but has given up fighting to live and the son wants his father to keep fighting to live, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light"(line 3). The father used to be strong and the son looked up to him and now the father is dying and weak and it is hard for the son to see him like that, "And you, my father, there on the sad height,/ Curse, bless, me now wiht your fierce tears, I pray"(16,17). The son isn't ready to let his father go yet but the father is tired and is ready to let go and pass on. It is a struggle many people will face, losing a loved one that they are not ready to let go of.

"Do not go Gentle into that Good Night"

"Do not go Gentle into that Good Night" is written by Dylan Thomas who is expressing his thought's death and the importance of fighting to live life to the fullest. "Do not go Gentle into that Good Night" reflects humanity’s strong struggle for life. The poem is an appeal for a fight against death for everyone. The speaker believes that people should try their best to live a full life and to not give up so easily.
The poem reminds me of the short story "Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter which is about an 80 year old woman's life. The story takes place in her mind and in her bedroom while she's on her death bed. Granny Weatherall, as she is lying on her death bed, flashbacks of her past that go as far back as 60 years, it's very apparent that she is not ready to leave the earth yet. "God, give a sign! For a second time there was no sign. Granny Weatherall has been in some way deceived or disappointed in every love relationship of her life. Her past lover George, husband John, daughter Cornelia, and God all did an injustice by what Porter refers to as “jilting.”
George is her first lover and the person she was about to marry left her at the altar. On her wedding day George did not show up, as he never showed at all and it is never stated that she heard from him again. She is once again left at the altar, but this time, the altar of death. “For the second time there was no sign. Again no bridegroom and the priest in the house. She could not remember any other sorrow because this grief wiped them all away. In life and in death, Granny Weatherall has been jilted and therefore made strong, bitter, and fearful. As she passes away she feels bitter, and fearful and not ready for death because she believes that she deserves to live more.
The idea of fear of death is also shown in the poem "Do not go Gentle into that Good Night" when the speaker says “Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight/Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay/Rage, rage against the dying of the light” (Lines 13-15). These lines describe when someone is so close to death, he will continue fighting it until the last moment.

"Ozymandias" Poem # 8

I think that this poem has a very good representation of many peoples work, who over the years dwindle down to nothing, at least that the hard work means nothing to nobody else to recognize it after something has gotten old and brittle. The sculptor made an engraving in this once grand statue saying "My name is Ozymandias,king of kings/Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" (Lines 10-11). This was an interesting phrase because he was talking proudly of his works, telling everyone who looked upon it to be jealous of his great feat in making this statue. Now the once great statue lays in ruins upon the ground in some desert "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone/Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand/Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown/And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command" (2-5). By saying "shattered visage" they are stating that the once great statue has lost its composure and also faced the change of reality. This poem was very ironic in the fact that this statue used to be great, but now lay in ruins just like many of our american dreams.

Dulce et Decorum Est – Poetry Blog #5

When I began reading the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, one of the first things that captured my attention was the way he described the images of war. “Bent, double, like old beggars under sacks,/ Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,/ Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs/ And towards our distant rest began to trudge” (lines 1-4). These first four lines are describing a soldier’s experience of marching during a war. Throughout the rest of the first stanza, the speaker continues to describe the terrible conditions of the soldier’s march. “Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots/ But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind” (lines 5-6). I also found it hard to believe how they unceremoniously tossed the body of the dead soldier into the back of a wagon. “If in some smothering dreams you too could pace/ Behind the wagon that we flung him in,/ And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,/ His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;/ If you could hear, at every jolt the blood/ Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,/ Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” (lines 17-23). I cannot imagine experiencing something like these soldier’s did. I also have a hard time believing that it would not take a toll to some degree on a person’s mind. These images described by Wilfred Owen are some of the horrible truths of war. I feel that he captured these images through his words in this poem.

"Do not go gentle into that good night"

The poem "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas caused me to feel a mixture of emotions along with the speaker. This poem is about about a child, most likely grown up, waiting by their father's side as he is on his deathbed. The feeling of death is strong and present, the child knows his father is dying and will die soon. Another feeling of the poem is strength, the child wants his father to go down fighting."Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight/Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay" (Lines 13-14). He does not want his father to die peacefully and quiet, he wants his father to fight for every breathe until he can not do it anymore. This shows the child's strong love for his father. "Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light" (Lines 18-19) is an example of the child's desire for his father to fight against death. I do not understand the pain of losing a parent, but I agree with the speakers' passion for not wanting his father to go easily to death. "Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray" (Line 17) demonstrates how the speaker realized that he could not help his father any longer. In the end, the speaker seemed to feel a little more reassurance when he was able to pray to God for his father. Overall, the speaker was angry that his father was dying but felt a little better when he was able to realize he would go into the hands of God.