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 9, 2019
Love Poem: Chimera
During my first reading of Love Poem: Chimera, I thought it was about pregnancy. You could easily make that distinction with the line "Thought myself body enough for two". However as I kept reading, I quickly changed my mind and figured the poem was about a relationship.The line "What clamor we made in the birthing/ What hiss and rumble at the splitting, at the horns and beard." made me think of how in a relationship, once the two partners get more comfortable with each other, they both reveal how they truly are and that could be seen as good or bad. The one thing that confused me about the poem was the ending line "What strong neck, what bright eye. What menagerie are we. What we've made of ourselves.". I can interpret it as both good and bad. It could be a declaration of how they don't mind what the relationship has become and how they're comfortable with it or a moment of reflection that has a tone of disgust because of how the relationship turned out.
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Hi William: This is a really good reading of the poem. I think that you could read the poem as both about birth and about relationships. In fact, perhaps you could argue that giving birth is a kind of "romantic" relationship too.
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