Monday, February 20, 2012

The Man with a Blue Guitar poem response

The first thing I noticed about this poem is that it is a long poem. Personally I am not a fan of really long poems, I tend to find myself loosing interest or loosing my place and trying to recall everything in the poem and what story it is telling. I saw that throughout the poem, it like to repeat words like 'blue guitar' and there were some rhyming words. while reading this poem, I got the feeling like it was a depressing type of poem, and when I saw the word's 'blue guitar' in made it seem like that was the intention. The reason why I say that is because, the way I see it, (and I am not going by how the illustration) is that blue usually is reference as a sad emotion like red usually mean angry. I don't know if that is how this poem is meant to be read, but that is how I read it as.

I also noticed that this poem did not have long sentences and that it mostly stayed with having two lines then double spacing to the next line. And that the words were shortened, and something new I noticed is at some sections of the poem, the same words would be used but would be switched around. I would almost say that this poem was maybe trying to be a list poem, because they kept using the words 'blue guitar' and on both lines a word would be used twice.

I wish I could have the correct answer to say what this poem is telling, but I just don't know. It seemed like there was a new thing going on in each paragraph, that did not seem to relate to the other things in the beginning, besides the mentioning of the 'blue guitar'. But what I can say that I like is that in some parts of the poem, the man with the blue guitar says things like 'thats the way they are' meaning that nothing can be done to change what it already is. I think in the beginning people tell him what not to play with that blue guitar or what should be played. But the man that has the blue guitar plays what he feels and that is the way it is. Again, long poems are not my strong suit, it is hard for me to have in my mind a visual story from reading this poem. So many different things happening, and confused as to how it connects. Perhaps I am thinking too much as to how writing a story is done, but most of the stuff I read, I can put into a visual story like a movie playing in my head.

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