Rita Dove, "Daystar"
Image: "the pinched armour of a vanished cricket," (p.300)
I chose this piece of imagery because it was very descriptive and easy to picture. I always looked at crickets as very tightly compacted insects, they make a crunch when you step on them, they're harder then most insects. I would have to say that this line goes very well in the poem. When she says "pinched armour" it's almost like she is referring to herself. She feels pinched in her role as a mother, and she hides behind her armour thinking of the place that is purely hers while things go on around her, while things happen to her. Also, her use of the word vanish, that's almost what she wants to do. She wants to vanish away. Depart from the mundane life she leads. I really liked this line, and thought it was very appropriate for the tone or message of the poem.
Kate Chopin, "A Pair of Silk Stockings"
Image: And the gaudy woman wiped her eyes and sniffed on a tiny square of filmy, perfumed lace..." (p.67)
I chose this piece of imagery because it was humorous to me. Mrs. Sommers was that gaudy woman earlier that morning, and now she thought herself so refined from new stockings, gloves, boots, and a nice meal. That's just funny, how silly women can be over possessions, and status. I'd say the imagery fits in rather well with the short story. It reminds you of "little" Mrs. Sommers, from the beginning of the tale, and how she is now this altogether different, less gaudy woman.
Judy Syfers, "Why I Want a Wife"
Image: "I want a wife who will take care of MY physical needs."
I chose this imagery because the whole text is about the wife doing for the husband/author. A wife is described as basically a slave to her husbands needs, wants, desires, and who wouldn't want such a slave? The line made me think of the movie Pleasantville. Where the wife is such a person to her husband, and she one day realizes that there is more to life then living the same old, mundane life in servitude of her husband. The line certainly fits in with the rest of the text. The text is non-stop wife doing what husband wants whenever he wants it and submissively.
3 comments:
I love the way that you connected with the image of the cricket because when I read this poem I didn't put that same image with that part of the poem. Now that you said that crickets are a hard insect and they crunch when they get steped on, its almost like she felt that way, like she was getting "stepped on" by getting smothered by her children and if she didnt get away she would "crunch".
I love the way that you connected with the image of the cricket because when I read this poem I didn't put that same image with that part of the poem. Now that you said that crickets are a hard insect and they crunch when they get steped on, its almost like she felt that way, like she was getting "stepped on" by getting smothered by her children and if she didnt get away she would "crunch".
I also reacted to the "cricket" image... I think of it as she's comparing herself to some fragile little thing, that has a degree of protection with it's armor, but even the armor itself is fragile too.
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