Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Kooser
I enjoyed "A Letter in October". I don't really understand why, I think it's because it captures a real esence of saddness and a longing for something slowly dying. He talks about how the days are getting shorter and colder. He mentions wishing he could sit on his porch with his coffee enjoying the sunrise. It's simple and every emotional.
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yea..its like a sort of feel of laziness when daylights savings change and the sun is not out as much anymore..you cant really sit there and look out the window and watch everything that's going on because it is still dark out. The days are slowly dying because they do seem to get shorter...Winter is coming he basically cant enjoy the outside as much anymore.
ReplyDeleteRight about the sadness and longing; when analyzing this poem, notice how personification and metaphor or deployed to suggest a greater loss--a loss of contact with something outside the self, perhaps even a potential loss of poetic vision: the final image is expecially crucial,in contrast with/context with the opening image. Spend time with the details, and let them genlty lower you beneath the surface of this poem....
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