Alice at Seventeen: Like A Blind Child Darcy Cummings
One summer afternoon, I learned my body like a blind child (why comparing a body to the blind child) leaving a walled school for the first time (Has it ever gone to school?), stumbling from cool hallways to a world dense with scent and sound (experiencing the world), pines roaring in the sudden wind like a huge chorus of insects. (maybe when the insects are buzzing) I felt the damp socket of flowers, touched weeds riding the crest (how its formed) of a stony ridge, and the scrubby ground cover on low hills (the grass). Haystacks began to burn (the flames tearing it apart), smoke rose like sheets of translucent mica (how it was unfolding). The thick air hummed over the stretched wires of wheat as I lay in the overgrown field listening to the shrieks of small rabbits bounding beneath my skin.
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In this poem, "Alice at Seventeen: Like A Blind Child", the overall mood of this poem is hopefully calm because the speaker was hearing the surroundings of the nature and the tone that the speaker had used was elated since it was with many high hopes in the poem. The general idea that I got from this poem is to listen to the nature's beauty. Sometimes, people don't really pay much attention to it, since they have other "stuff" to do, which that's very amusing to do.
The speaker had mentioned about the sound of the surroundings that nature has. In the poem, the speaker stated with this line, "from cool hallways to a world/dense with scent and sound." The poet's diction in this line was about how the imagery that was created in this solid line, even though nature has it strongest ways of expressing.
The speaker also mentioned small rabbits, hearing the shrieks coming from them. In the poem, the line that the speaker stated was, "Stretched wires/of wheat as I lay in the overgrown field/listening to the shrieks of small rabbits." In this line, the diction was used well to make imagery out of this solitary line, and it is helpful for the image to come out from this line and I guess the poet got his/her point across.