Poetry blog

People Getting Divorced by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I chose this poem because the title caught my eye as I am also going through a divorce right now. I thought this was a very insightful poem as it is comparing the lost relationship with a lost pair of shoes. Both are gone and you don't know if they every found each other again, or if the split stays intact, like are you still friends or if you never hear from them again. It also comments on going on with life, like you find the shoes but they are missing a heal, like you are missing a part of yourself, but once you get that heal fixed, or replaced, you can move on.

My next poem is It is the living who cannot by Hilda Morley. I found this poem just browsing through the list of poems and I thought that it was so true. When we lose someone to death, especially someone close to us, we always want them to come back because it is too hard to live without them. But the poem also let's us know that the dead don't want to come back, and if they did, it would only be to console us. I think this poem can make someone feel a little better about the loss of a loved one.

A Hymn to Childhood by Li-Young Lee. When I saw the title of this poem I thought it was going to be a happy, upbeat poem about childhood. However, after reading it it's actually about a child growing up during war times and how their life is affected by that. I was very shocked and surprised and saddened after reading this. One would hope that childhood is a happy time, but I know that's unrealistic and some childhoods, as this one, are not so happy.

Lastly, To E.T. by Robert Frost. Okay, I'll admit it, I thought he was talking about E.T. the movie. I chose this poem because my son for some reason is terrified of E.T. and I thought a poem may help. However, this poem is I think is about soliders who die in a war. I am not a poet, I don't read poetry, I know nothing about it, so his poems are a little hard for me to decipher. When I'm done reading them, I'm always left with questions about what it was about. I know he's a great poet, just by reputation, but I can't figure them out.