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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Red Wheelbarr

Even though the poem was short you can still pull tons of opinions out of it. Obviously the wheelbarrow was the main topic, i feel that the barrow was used everyday performing duties on the farm, most likely carrying stuff in like food or dirt and taking the bad stuff out like manure. The wheelbarrow was an important and useful tool for the owner of it. If the authors mentioning chicken is a such a short poem maybe they are connected to the wheelbarrow maybe the wheelbarrow was used in the maintenance and raising of the chickens. moving dirt in and out of the chicken coups. I worked on a Chicken farm in the middle east for 5 months and I used wheelbarrow all the time numerous duties involving the chickens. the wheelbarrow was never glazed with rain because it was in the middle of the desert

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

fish

When I read this poem I missed alot of information that was hidden not only till I read it again did i uncover many images and symbols. In the poem the Fish by Elizabeth Bishop she gives images and symbols of her experiences on that lake with the tremendous fish. The words she uses gives me almost paints a picture in my head of how she felt, what the fish lookd like, and her settings surrounding her. Right of the bat she discribes the fish as tremendous this word isnt used alot unless the size of something really impresses the viewer so now I see the fish as unique. She discribes the fish as heavy, battered, and venerable she also added later in the poem that his eyes looked like tarnished tinfoil and looked like old scratched isinglass, and how "he didnt fight he hadn't faught at all" this might explain that the fish is old at the end of the line(no punn intended) almost ok with the situation he was in