wk:7 lawrence ferlinghetti: In Golden Gate Park that day....

I enjoyed reading the poem because it has a calm and rhythmical vibe to it. The use of imagery such as meadow built up the beauty of the park and importance of that spot they choose to go to. the tress that dreams there gave a peaceful romance to the scene to the park and atmosphere. lines such as: 

      "And then the two of them came on

                                                thru the enormous meadow   

which was the meadow of the world".

while reading we are shown this almost perfect day and even though  he says" without saying anything" we dnt realize that its not cut-communication rather I pictured a couple that are relaxing and have a routine and understood one another without saying a word. towards the end we are re-introduced to the flute which no one plays:almost seems like an accessory to be more creative or new generation/ artistic image rather than corporate persons in the city.

finally the ending is a left turn of shock:   "and finally looking over

                                                                at him

                  without any particular expression

                                                               except a certain awful look   

                        of terrible depression".

This line was the last and almost the most vivid and shocking line in the poem.all the emotions that were missing are all in these last few words and makes this day even more real. because even when all seems perfect and collected within a surrounding:there lies depression. 

wk.6 Ginsberg ''Howl''.

When Reading the poem there was a sense of pity and despair in the words. We are given Ironic comparisons between his communities Politics, Poets, Jazz musicians,and drug addicts are all " unrepresented outcasts" and according to him "Best minds of his generation"As the poem cont's we are sensing that the molding and up rise of industrialization is his point of demise of the great minds.

My favorite lines are :

"who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade,

who cut their wrists three times successively unsuccessfully, gave up and were forced to open antique stores

where they thought they were growing old and cried". 

 

This was the most symbolic imagery of change and unwiliness of the change that came to those who were used to a certain lifestyle.The thing he refers to is taking over and making people change and conform into a style of living which is undesirable and unwanted. His people have been reformed into this mold.

 Towards the end we are introduced to  Rock land the coming to acceptance with what is the America and the sheets of cover up. This poem had a sad but rhythmic sense of tone in it. it brought out a motion in the words. 

wk. 5 Ted Kooser's A Letter In October.

Ted Kooser’s “The  letter in October” has a very mysterious almost magical feel to the scene and it gives us the imagery of the light and water and comparison to what was and what is now, the difference and the darkness that is,startled by time.I do not believe the tittle itself wasn’t intentional, to me it set the time fame and somewhat of the scenery. I saw colors as soon as I read October. The character speaks about a drifting away of this feeling of his youth,almost a month ago as if time isn’t real its moving in storyline time.This is somewhat similar to the way the tone of the “An Epiphany” because it also uses colorful imagery and and a realistic features to display an witness to change and unreal scene.“The Letter in October” It’s more dream of what it was or how a morning felt.The character sees the hair of his wife tangled and remembers her and they way she acts: twirling of the hair and than closes the poem with the lifeless beetles broken legs.The realization ending was also used in the “Letter in October “ poem, as he awakes to darkness and open curtain to his open face and realization to now looking in.Its portraying a almost  dreamt imagery and than closing in awaking of the dreams/imagination.In-conclusion the author can uses simplicity in his advantage because he has the power to change time in our minds,his thoughts becoming illusionist dreams of the time that was and than reality is set in and its all done so smoothly that we do not realize it this we get to it’s end.