This week I am deciding to blog about It was a dream by Lucille Clifton. I decided to blog about this poem because it was really interesting and a tad bit confusing, not gonna lie. However, i'm not scared to blog about my response to this poem so we're good. Aaaaanyways back to my blog. This was another poem that gave me really good imagery as I read it. I could see the wild woman with her crazy hair and wild eyes. I really understood this poem at the beginning, but at the end I was lost. Well particularly the This. This. This part made no sense to me. Also I didn't know what "gyre of rage" was. So i looked it up and it actually means: a swirling, spiral, vortex of anger. That's harsh, she was not a happy greater self apparently.
From this poem, I gathered (meaning wise) that this women (who was probably Clifton) had a dream in which her greater self (who I think was her image of what she wanted to be or her pure and good self) and her greater self was not happy with who she had become and what she had made of her self.
I feel like this poem is about Clifton reflecting on her life and what she had accomplished in it and the person that she was becoming.
The "greater self" was indeed angry. lol :)
ReplyDeleteI think you do a good job with the imagery--try to use quotation marks so that the reader knows you are using actual lines from the poem. Also, the repetition of "this, this, this."
I think you ultimately capture the meaning in the last two paragraphs. Good!