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
Today's Special
Today's Special is a strange poem. I had to re-read it twice to really kind of grasp what it was about. Reading the title, you would think that it is a poem about food or a restaurant but the first line is "Today's special is all-natural rage,". So the tone shifts and now it's about anger. At this point, tons of thoughts went through my head. I thought of many scenarios that this poem could apply to and the best one I could come up with is that this poem is a rant in someone's head that they're reciting to themselves. With the use of repetition of the line "Today's special is all-natural rage," it only made me think what I was reading could be someone's mental tirade against someone who wronged them.
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Good observation, William. Many poems are combinations of two things. So Decker imagines that his rage might be listed on a chalk board or announced by a server at a restaurant. Did you notice the rhyme scheme and repeating lines? This is a triolet:
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