Thursday, March 31, 2011
Late February by Ted Kosser
Late February reminds me of the March weather that New York goes through. Usually February is spring time in much of USA's south states but not New York. ".. the snow is no more," ".. by 5'o clock the chills come ..." both of these remind me of the Spring time in New York, but except NY gets this weather in March. The poem also ends in a good way as they bring up the "famer's body that has been missing will show up unexpeceting like a tunip," which is a very poetic way to say that farmers will be back to work soon to work on their gardens. "...bicycle, small carnivals," is signs of people starting to go out the house, not like the winter where mostly you spend in doors. "Children dress somehow of old men ..." in this line i feel like it saying that spring is wet with all the rain that children when they play together get so dirty on all their activities with one another. What do you gys think of the poem?
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I agree that New York weather would be completely different that what Kooser is describing. I believe Kooser describes this scene so well because it is a memory. In many of Kooser's poems, like "A Room in the Past", he tries to describe a specific memory in life, which he believes is constantly fleeting.
ReplyDeleteSee my comments on Christian's blog--much more here than literal description. Finding the body of the farmer is meant as a discomforting image--esp in context of other images--again, see comments on Christian's blog. What we may be seeing, here, are remnants of a (way of) life..
ReplyDeletei agree that new york weather would be different as well.IT's nice to see your interpretation of this poem.. and the response before mine. I also agree that with his poetry, Kosser does write about specific memories that he tries to bring back for his audience.i also agree that the memories according to kosser are fleeting because that is what memories are ..they don't live like people do, memories will outlive you and will either be good or bad and that's just what they are.
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