Thursday, March 31, 2011
We eat out together: By Bernadette Mayer
Right form the start the Mayer states that the character heart is a fancy place referring to the person being accustomed to nice and expensive things, a dinner on a boat cruising down a river at night wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary. The one part i read that got my attention was when Mayer mentioned "even a tortured lamp served in pieces" the poem was going light and smooth and then all of a sudden a powerful word like torture is thrown in, I kinda like how she did that excited up the story a little bit. Mayer makes is very apparent that's the couple are living lavish, well of with money and a little snobby.when she said "where entitled to see anytime" she was saying like how they can go eat on the river whenever they pleased and "publicly dishing out intimate luxuries" It seems like there hearts are like pots of gold.
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Well, best not to take all this too literally. The sense of entitlement is an image pattern set out at the beginning-"fancy"--and carried through in various ways, incl. the stereotype association of "classy" with things European, esp. French. She's having a bit of fun with a kind of nouveau riche or , let's say, declasse sense of being "classy"--but also poking fun at overly erudite poetry, that might dress itself up in highfalutin rhetoric...another interesting thing here, imagistically, is the ending image--a tacky heart within a heart (see the opening lines); also worth noting the, in the above context, the opening imagery of giant cauliflowers--a kind of Alice in Wonderland pedestrian surrealism...
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