Untitled. With some side notes.

Okay, let me just start off by saying that in my most recent blog: a summary of Act II of Hamlet was wrong. I realized after I got to class the following day that we were supposed to summarize the rest of Act I, so that was uh my bad. In my defense, it was still a rather good summary. Now on to my poem blog.

I chose to do this blog on Untitled by Stephen Crane because I really enjoyed this poem. The first time that I read this poem was in class so I had a chance to hear what other people had to say and that helped make sense of it a little. While everyone talked about the poem in class I listened but I figured i'd think about it again later. I got home (actually I just re read it before I wrote this) and had another look at it. This poem is really cool. When I read this poem I didn't really visualize some beast with an abundance of hair all over it's body, I saw a small vulnerable creature. I saw something that looked like that little guy on The Ring, I can't recall his name. I just imagined this little thing eating a heart with blood everywhere but as I get closer I don't fear this creature but instead am intrigued.

Honestly, I was confused about why this creature was eating it's own heart if it liked it. What I gathered from this poem was that his heart was bitter, therefore he was bitter but he didn't mind because that was how HE was so he liked it anyways. The confusion comes in the form of a question: "If he liked his heart like he said, why did he eat it?" It may be reading too deeply into it or questioning unnecessary details about this poem but I still felt that it was a valid question.

Another thing is that after I read this poem I thought about myself, did I feel this way? DO I really like myself how I am, bitterness and all? Yes, I do like my heart "Because it is MY heart."

This poem just seemed like a unusual way of saying that you have to like yourself for who you are and the way you are because it is you, yes?