the cat

This poem has 6 stanzas one couplet one quatrain two quintain and two sestet. The way the lines are cut off makes the poem read more aggressive. Each stanza besides the couplet is one sentence. “Outside it was night like a book without letters.” I like the book metaphor a book without letter would be white but still reminds us of night. “I said to her do not go why want nothing?” I think this can mean Nirvana to want nothing but can also man to want material need which really amount to nothing. Wanting material objects or searching for salvation can lead to losing our self’s. “No one ever saw her again. Not even she herself.” I loved that line of the poem.

alone

This poem is made of one stanza. This poem has an AABBAABB scheme. The rhyming and usage of punctuation made the poem flow very well making it easy to read out loud. The poem also used the same words for (example from, my, as, and, the) to start each line of the poem which made the poem flow more. “From childhood’s hour I have not been as others were – I have not seen as others saw…” The narrator is different than other people he is very strange. “I could not bring my passions from a common spring” I found this very interesting because springs or water wells have historically been a symbol of community. The narrator feels excluded from his water well which excludes all his passion from normal society. “All I lov’d- I lov’d alone” I thought of all those shows on TLC about obsessions. You might love to eat cotton swabs but you love to eat them alone. “And the clouds that took the form (when the rest of the heavens were blue) a demon was in my view-“I thought this was so interesting if you take it literally or symbolically.
*The picture is named Alone and the painter was inspired by this poem.