Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 102 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Saturday, February 23, 2019
Sono by Suji Kwock KIm
Sono is a poem about an unborn fetus traveling towards their birth. The imagery invoked by the poet is that of a sea creature traversing in a far away ocean displayed on a sonogram machine. The poet goes out of their way to include multiple adjectives in her descriptions. Examples like seahorse-skeleton, water-lunged and fish-rigged are used to associate fetus with water creatures. I think the poem is well thought out but a bit confusing with descriptive she gets. There were lines like "the world without the shadow of your death" that contrasts with earlier lines because of how broad it is. I definitely feel that there is something else the poet is hinting at but I am not able to grasp at it fully.
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I like that line you quote. It seems like she's suggesting that when the baby is within her he is cradled and protected, but once he's out and casting a shadow he's vulnerable. Like the fiction writer Samantha Hunt has said about childbirth: When you give birth, you're not just creating a life but creating a death since all who live will one day die. Bleak or part of the cycle of life?
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