Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 102 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing, reading, and thinking on a weekly basis in an informal setting.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Birds Punctuate the Days
Birds Punctuate the Days is written in the form of a haiku and I haven't seen haiku used in this type of way before. It follows the standard format of a haiku but it compiles a bunch of haikus and creates sort of a story with it. To me, it feels as if this poem is trying to show the passage of time but instead of doing it in a conventional manner, it uses birds to convey it. This is only bolstered by the last haiku which says "Period. One Blue egg all summer long. Now gone". I figured the summer has past since the egg finally hatched. Does anyone else feel this way?
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Hi William: Good response. I hadn't thought about the last stanza/poem also being a period before. Good observation.
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