Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Extra Credit Response Post
For next Wednesday/Thursday's class (10/20 and 10/21), you may post an extra credit response. For the response, please choose a poem that we did not discuss in class and you did not present on, and do a line-by-line explication analyzing the rhyme scheme, diction, figures of speech, etc. The post must be 250 words in order to receive any credit. Indicate in your title what response you would like for it to take the place of.
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A Blind Astronomer in the Age of Stars
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I think this poem is about an old man who was bor blind and something he has always wanted is to be an astronomer and see the sky.
I believe he is an old man because it says "he considers himself lucky to heve been born during the Age of Stars" and stars are old so I believe he was born long time ago.
I believe that he is blind because it talks about how he imagines how they shine as if they were the work of light giving sight, like eyes, to a blind universe that means that since he is blind he can only imagine how they shine.
I know it talks about him making his way through the fields at night, so you're question might be how if hes blind, I think hes not alone, hes with his love.
Where it says "he feels each star in the way he hears each syllable of his lover's whisper" that means that since hes blind he can only imagine what they look like, just like his love he can imagine what she looks like but he cannot see her.
Since he is blind he imagines that different sounds are being made from metereors but they are really sounds of a piercing cry of a rabbit a prairie mouse.
The place he talks about at the end is the same place but him being able to see, but he cannot be, so he calls that place patience.
This poem is in third person, so I know nothing about the speaker.
I think this poem refers to all the people who cannot do certain things because of something that doesn't allow them to do it.