Friday, July 29, 2011
6th Blog
The poem that i found the hardest to comprehend was "The Flea." Reading it the first time I didn't see what a fly has to do with one's sex life or being in love or even wanting to have sex. I thought this poem was confusing because the flea could symbolize multiple things depending on how the reader analyzes the poem. After reading the poem I believed it symbolized the faith that brings people together. "And this flea our two bloods mingled be," stood out to me when thinking this way. Although after reading the footnotes, I know the poem is about love and sex. But overall, i found this poem a little confusing. The poem that I found the easiest to understand was "Richard Cory." It's easy to follow and you get the point of the poem right away about a guy who everyone admires and looks up to but little do they know he's tired of his own life and kills himself.
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"The Flea" was the poem that I also had no idea what it was about in the beginning and then couldn't get why he would use a flea to represent love. Which poem did you like the most?
ReplyDeleteYes, Richard Cory was by far the easiest to understand. You might want to change fly to flea around the beginning. But yes, the flea was utterly confusing. Shmoop is a good website to help you understand poems.
ReplyDeleteThe Flea and My Last Duchess were the hard ones for me. I had no idea they he was talking about sex until the professor discussed it in class. What did you think of Prufrock? Even though it had a lot of allusions and it was more complicated I understood that one more than The Flea and Duchess.
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