Tuesday, June 3, 2014

fianl analysis

when i first read the poem i saw the poem solely in a light of death and decay, but through the process of studying it i was able to see the poem in a light of hope and forward movement. i only saw the poem as a poem of grief with no happy ending. but as i studied the poem and had others teach me about it i learned that it was uplifting with an important message.

when i first read the poem i came across a couple lines that i thought i completely understood, but in all reality didn’t. i didn’t understand what a flagellant was or why it would even be mentioned in the poem. when i looked up the definition of flagellant i became even more confused about why that term would be mentioned in the poem. eventually Jose explained it to me and how it represents the exhaustion the speaker has.

i also didn’t understand what cataracts were or what they had to do with the poem. by the end of the process though i understood that the speaker was old, i wasn’t aware of that at first. i got that cataracts were an eye disease having looked up the word, but i didn’t know what it was implying. i didn’t understand its relevance to the poem.