Meding Wall by Frost
Learning to Love America by Lim
Harlem by Hughes
All three of these poems were apart of the reading this week. In these three poems i did not have a particular favorite over the rest of them.
Mending wall by Robert Frost was a very visual piece of poetry. I interpreted this poem as a man being the narrorator watching or spying on his neighbor over the fence around his yard. I though this because of the line that was repeated "good fences make good neighbors." I thought the author meant by this that the narrorator was not a very socialable person and perfered to watch than to actually socialize.
Learning to Love America was a way for the author to express her feelings about the way she feels about America. Every line was a reason why she loved the fact she came to America, it was almost like she was justifying her decision to move here. The part of the poem that was most powerful for me was when she incorporated her son into the poem. The introduction of her son demonstrated how powerful her feelings towards this topic are.
Harlem
I found this poem to be confusing in what was trying to be portrayed in the message. Personally I interpreted it to be about a persons dreams dying and not being able to live up to his or her dreams. I think the title of Harlem brings in the fact that the dreams were and are not met because of reality and how hard it is in Harlem at times.
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