I'm going to try to do something with this blog that I haven't tried before. Every day, I will post a poem that I have deemed poem of the day. Today's is thus:
Like Mighty Foot Lights - burned the Red
At Bases of the Trees -
The far Theatricals of Day
Exhibiting - to These -
'Twas Universe - that did applaud -
While Chiefest - of the Crowd -
Enabled by his Royal Dress -
Myself distinguished God
I chose this one mainly because I thought it would be easy to explicate. I thought, Hey, it's only two stanzas, eight lines, how hard can it be? I found myself reading it again and again, and actually losing whatever thread of understanding I had at first. If we're taking this poem as a description of a sunset, then yeah, easy. However, in that last line, "Myself," meaning the poetess, describing herself as God, makes me understand the poem much less. Then, I thought, maybe she is only describing how she has the sunset reflecting on her. Still, this doesn't describe her godly aspirations. If anyone out there in blogland can help, please comment!
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Hah! I picked a short poem for my paper that seemed pretty straight forward...but it's her shorter poems that are often the most misleading and they are packed with so much!
ReplyDeleteI don't think she's calling herself god, instead, i think she's saying that she's the one who has figured God out.