RMT - What I Would Do by Marc Petersen

10:04 AM / Posted by Greg White / comments (0)



Initial Reaction: The first couple of lines of this poem completely caught my attention. Almost every line of this poem had me guessing about what was going to happen next.

Meaning: This poem seemed like it was going to be a sick and twisted type, but when I read it through a couple of times I uncovered a deeper meaning. "Take from it my 12" hickory-handle hammer, and I would hammer out the pins, in all the door hinges in the house." The author is using a metaphor how he would be bare without his wife just like a house would be bare without it's doors. He is going to turn the stereo up full-blast just like he wants to scream and get everything out of him. He is opening the windows of his house maybe like he is opening the windows of his heart to make sure everything they shared is pushed out of him. He could be doing everything to his house because he does not know what he is going to do with himself. Right now he is full because it doesn't seem like his wife cheated yet but he uses the metaphor that he is draining all the gas out of his motorcycle and letting his Jeep run outside on the curb. He would be empty without her and something will always be missing between them.

Technique: The author uses a lot of metaphors like for example, "And I would strip our bed; And I would lie on our stripped bed." Its showing how his heart would be bare without her just like lying on a stripped bed. The whole poem is one stanza which makes the reader read from line to line non-stop. I did not break in between when I was reading. The whole poem really seems to flow with each other and through out every line in the poem I could see in my mind exactly what is going on.

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RMT - Tuesday 9:00 AM by Denver Butson

3:30 PM / Posted by Greg White / comments (1)





Initial Reaction: It was confusing at first reading this poem, but it did catch my attention causing me to continue reading until the end. I had to read it over twice to try to understand the meaning of the poem. The last line of the poem did not really flow with the rest of the poem.


Meaning: I interpret this poem to mean that this could be what the bus driver is thinking about the people that are on his bus. He is locked up in his own thoughts. He is tortured by his own visions. Another meaning that can be taken out of this poem is that a symbol could be love. "A man standing at the bus stop reading the newspaper is on fire Flames are peeking out from beneath his collar and cuffs" The whole poem has no punctuation, but this man could be in love with someone. "Another women is freezing to death. She tries to sit near the man who is on fire." This could represent two different people coming together, someone who is on fire and someone who is freezing, creating a normal temperature of their bodies, creating a bond between them. Another women is drowning in her tears. This could represent that the man that is on fire is married to the women who is drowning in her tears, while he has the fire or sexual temptations to go after the women who is freezing. The bus driver could represent a figure overseeing all of this happening, a bystander or maybe even a God.

Technique: This poem is separated into four stanzas and the author does not use any punctuation. The poem is a free verse and all the lines really seem to go with each other besides the last half of the forth stanza when the author talks about how the bus driver is tortured by visions and is wondering if the man who got off at the last stop was really being mauled to dead by wild dogs. That did not really seem to go with the rest of the poem. The poem does not really rhyme but it goes with each other. The author uses a lot of metaphors to convey the point. The author also seems to get images stuck in my head like for example one of the women have icicles hanging from her eyelashes. You don't really see that every day.

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