1. The speaker frequently pits American settings against each other; rural against urban America.
3. the poem has ten stanzas all dedicated to different places in America; "a cottage grove", "service stairs", "a boxcar", "an open air theater", cities at the turn of the century, "streetcars", "middle west", "back country", "coastal towns", and "bare fields."
4. Stanzas juxtaposes rural or past natural images with new manufactured images, "galloping horses"and "wires", "crumbling stone" and "laundresses."
5. the speaker frequently references forms of modeling or mirroring images that the creator does not like, wind balks at it's shadow, force of colloquial greetings, built over with fake ruins, laves are alive but to heavy with life, fathers undid what the children created, business is done in spite of things and the speaker advocates it being done in spite of everything.
6. nothing in the poem is completed by the creators or if it is completed it is faintly done or it is erased.
7. several references are made to the theatrical devices;open air theater, fourth wall, stage-set,, painted furniture, parades.
8. colors and light all are faded or fade , birds absorb color, golden pollen sinks, dreams glow and grow dull,
9. several references are made to way in which an image can be crafted, fuming, burnishing, glitter, mirroring, channeling, pairing off, magic, unravelling
10. the speaker speaks of a lost culture in America, being mirrored state to state and wanting to leave it. even the land pulls away from itself when faced with the parade. there are no sighs like russian music only unraveling darkness.
Some wonderful items here, Jeff. You're definitely improving, becoming more sensitive to the textual details.
ReplyDelete