This poem was really straight forward. It was just a recollection of how a habit started. maybe it was a recollection of how the author started to get in to poetry.
She awoke from a dream, where maybe her dad and mother had died because one of the first things she says in the third stanza is that her dad is not dead he is just returning from the graveyard shift, which is a slight play on words because she just reffered to death and then used the word "graveyard shift" in the same sentence.
Then she refers to her mom in the kitchen and how everything is waking up in the world around her and how her sister is walking across the cold floor so it shows that she is waking out of a dream and into reality.
i am still quite confused on why she said that her parents are not yet cremated in the second to last stanza...this poem is quite puzzling....
She is quite descriptive in just a short amount of time and it is really impactful. It allows the reader to really get an image in his or her brain about what her house is like and what is going on in her house. For instance when she describes the coffees strong arroma and the fact that her mother is rummaging through the silver...makes me feel like it is my home.
We talked about this in 3rd hour and it was really interesting. I'll be curious to see what your classmates say. I think you are actually on the right track.
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