My first thought was that this is one intense game of rock paper scissors. From this poem I feel so much more meaning in the words of Rock, Paper and Scissors. I thought that Rock, Paper, and Scissors was a simple game of deciding who has to do something, a game that you will probably play the rest of your life because lets face it, it is the fairest way of deciding. What I get from the poem is that when talking about Rock, Paper, and Scissors I kind of get the feeling as if you can not get though life without the other two. I get this from the lines,
"So heap up your paper
and scissor your wishes
and uproot the stone
from the top of the hill.
They all end alone
as you will, you will."
I thought that was interesting because in the game that is not the case. You use one to try and beat another. Each stanza before the last elaborates on each object. I get the feeling that the author is saying what each object means to him, describes the object in his own words. The Rock is brutal, but can be knocked when uprooted from a top a mountain. The paper are wishes and ethereal lives, and also pen is mightier than the sword or smothers the rock, and crazy thought you use pen to write on paper. The Scissors leave tattering wishes. Each object has a certain purpose and without the other two, you may not be successful. I believe that this is what the author is trying to say, but if I am wrong I did try.
Another thought about this poem, is that I really enjoyed it and just brings up those memories of who goes and gets the crayons for the group, I don't know lets play rock, paper, scissors to find out. They are not just old memories either I even do that now, as a senior in high school. :)
I started looking at the poems structure and notice that there was a ryhming sequence to the poem. ABCBCA. He does this ryhming sequence for the 3 stanzas then that kind of gets shot when the last stanza comes around. I don't completely understand the meaning of thie writing style.
He does kind of twist our understanding of the game. It's an interesting structure and message.
ReplyDeleteI like the way that you decided to go look at the structure of the poem. I need to start looking at the structure of the poems that i read a lot more. I like that you looked at the way that the author focuses on the different items that are in the game the way that the author does describe them like they are precious to him the way that he states that each can destroy the others and how they are twisted to be really serious by the author. I like what you said about the poem! thanx!
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