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 9, 2019
when reading pages, 1- 46, the poem that stood out to me the most was "Pied Beauty" (pg. 29). To me this poem was about a bad relationship. starting with the title, to me it meant that there is a different form of beauty In everything whether its bad or good, theres always those bad time within the good times. My interpretation of the first stanza would be that she is comparing herself to a rose, at first everything looks great and is going well, then things go bad and now she has a bruise and she is swelled up, the way everything is supposed to be, is now not. For example, "the rose is now varicose...and now a purple bruise". In the second stanza the author is saying all the years spent are now shaded over all the bad events and what was promised between them. Possibly meaning marriage vows that have not been met in the relationship, for example the author writes " what had been promised but never meant; the youth and years that now seem badly spent- accept it."
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This is a great, careful reading of this poem.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is an homage to an earlier poem w/ the same title:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44399/pied-beauty