Cotton Mouth Country

I am blogging on Cotton Mouth Country by Louise Gl(u with two dots above it)ck today because it was a nice poem that I felt like I understood well enough to blog about it. Even though this poem is pretty short, I really liked it because the use of only one octet keeps the poem one whole idea instead of drawing it out with multiple stanzas.

I also noticed how she capitalized death. To me, that made me think that she meant actual death with his black hood and sword thing. I'm not quite sure what Hatteras is so I am going to use my inferencing skills that I have been working on since I was in about third grade. I'm going to say that it is a large body of water that has fish in it.

I think that this poem is really cool because she is commenting on the world and how polluted and depressing it is. The world, I think, is not really a great place, I mean you have robbers and murderers and debt. So it's interesting that she says that "Birth, not death, is the hard loss" because it can be hard to bring something into a world that is hard and full of death and darkness. Okay, now i'm thinking that Gl(u with two dots above it)ck is a depressed person because even though I see her point, writing that was a tad bit depressing.