My first thought that came tomy mind when I read this poem the first time was GROSS!!, but don't worry I believe that this poem as different and deeper meaning. The eating the heart part was what grossed me out even though it shouldm't because we read about eating dead babies which isn't even that worse. With this poem I believe that the most two important words are HEART and BITTER. So the first thing I did was get a formal definition of Bitter, the best definition that I believe the author uses in the poem is being resentful or cynical. This is used in the poem to show that possibly the "creature" in the poem is eating away his heart which is resentful and cynical. This can also be derived into putting a bitter taste in the mouth literally. I enjoy the visual affect the poem brings, even if it kind of grosses me out. Through such a short poem the author brings a visual affect to what is going on in the creatures life. By getting rid of the bitterness in the creatures heart by eating it, the only way the creature knows how because he is just a creature not a human. I don't know if the creature is trying to gain his humanity back by eating his heart ti get rid of the thing that makes him a creature, the bitterness in the heart he is eating.
I don't know if this blog makes sense my thoughts kind of jumbled together and I don't even know if they are correct, or if that is what the poem is about. So sorry if you don't understand my blog.
Interesting thoughts. What did you think after we talked about it in class?
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