This week’s readings were quite interesting. I can’t think of many other classes that would offer me up an extremely wordy essay about cultural studies, and then offer up a prose poem about Boy George. I’m not quite sure I fully grasped David Shumway’s essay, so it will be interesting to discuss it in class and find out what’s really going on there.
I did, however, really enjoy Harryette Mullen’s “Between.” I’m a sucker for a creative poetry like that, one where the poet uses their words and their order to create a meaning beyond what is simply being written. The name escapes me right now, but in high school I remember reading another creative poem that was about a knife cutting, or something a long those line, and the poet split theirs lines in half to represent the cutting of the discussed knife.
The “Dear Boy George” prose was interesting to read, though (as stated before) a little awkward since it seems to be addressed straight to Boy George, and not the person reading it. This makes it a little eerie, as it seems like we should not be reading her private letter.
Finally, there are the two poems from the book. I thought “The Snow Man” was quite fitting for the time of year, though I felt like Wallace Stevens had quite the depressing view on winter. The last line, “Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is,” does do a nice job of describing the emptiness of winter though. Finally, “Lullaby” was a little harder to understand. Each time I read it, I seem to find a different meaning to it, none of which I’m confident are the right readings of the poem. So this is another poem where I’ll be interested in hearing what the class has to say about it.
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