Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Dancing and Electricity

     1, 2, 3, 4...so on and so forth.  I really enjoyed reading paper.  I might be a little confused on to why there are numbers.  I mean it seems to me that it separates thoughts and different subjects, but then some numbers may have something to do with another.
     There were a few lines or passages that really made me smile or thought were cute and intriguing.  In the first passage, number 1 it talks about, in lines 7-14, a schoolgirl.  I paints a marvelous picture of her in my head.  I can visualize her "hair flying" while walking on the "negotiating sidewalk."  I saw the book with the pages bent frontward in her backpack as the writer described, full of all kinds of illustration about the planet she lived on.  Because of this description of her looks and what she reads I feel as though I am able to decipher a little bit of her personality.
     Furthermore, skip to passage 8.  Line 5, "It turns out they are electricity having sex in an infinite variety of permutations."  I know that this line is pretty vivid and sensual but yet is seriously right.  Actually seeing it in this way makes me understand the way electricity looks while it is being made.  That line is one of my favorites in the fact that it brings electricity into human understanding.
     Moreover, in passage 9, bottom last 5 lines it describes wheeling constellations as a dance with three graces.  "They made of it a figure of something elegant or lovely..."  I can understand how the three graces of dance can illiterate and resemble wheeling constellations because of how it is described.  Lines in this paper truly help, I think, the reader really understand what is being talked about and gives them a great visual to what they are portraying.               

3 comments:

  1. Wow, looks like you really understood this poem...and you weren't even in class(I don't think) when we went over it!
    Your explainations of the imagery of some of the lines really makes the poem come alive.

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  2. I never really thought about the numbers in that way I guess I didn't really think about the numbers at all, I just guess I read through them.

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  3. Yea the numbers were pretty cool. Some of those lines were pretty cool and interesting. The electricity line was in a way funny. I remember Corrigan saying he got a laugh out of the line. I can see where he would think it is funny somehow in his head.

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