The poem about 'today's special," without thinking or reading further ; one would probably think it's about food while one would think it's about something totally different. It goes on to say:
Today's special is all-natural rage,
grilled on a smoldering fire.
It's powerful flavor made subtle with age,
Today's special is all-natural rage. etc.
Smoldering means: when something is burning slowing with smoke but no flame.
To be honest I have ideas what it might mean but I cannot say that I'm sure that I fully understand it.
Once again I'll say poems I have been exposed to recently are harder to analyze correctly than I would have ever imagined.
This poem is on pg. 25 in the book "The best American Poetry," if anyone wants to help me pull it apart and better understand what it is trying to say.... It's not that I do not have any idea as to what it might be saying. I'm just rather uncertain....
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.
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