The Memoirs of Greg's Poetry

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.