Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead

Well another poem that I think tries to grab some readers with a little shock value. The title seems to me to just be a tool to get people to actually read the poem and I guess its worked since here I am reading it (even though I am forced to the point is still valid.) I've noticed lots of poets like to talk about death. What is it with poetry and death? I mean I get that death is a big topic but other forms of literature don't seem to focus so much on it. Here's my theory; since poetry is a dumb form of literature when people get depressed from death they write poetry, makes sense to me.

Delight in Disorder

Well, this poem seemed pretty straight forward. The speaker gets delight. . . from disorder. I don't really see the point to writing a poem about it but I guess that's why I'm not a poet. Anyway, basically this poems structure matched the theme. Broken rhyme scheme=disorder. I also think that the poem not being divided into stanzas at all and therefore, unorganized is also deliberate. This guy almost seems like he is, and I know this might be an extreme stretch, but maybe even sexually attracted to "disorderly" girls. He says a lot of things that make me think of a woman's clothes like the erring lace and the crimson stomacher, but who really knows.

Edward

After reading this poem this was the only thing I could think of:



I thought of Edward Scissorhands for a few reasons. One, his name is Edward. . .obviously. Also, hes creepy and sadistic. The fact that his mom told him to kill his dad, her husband, and he did even though he seemed to still like his father is probably the creepiest part. Honestly, I know this is an extreme euphemism, but killing your dad because your mom told you to even though you still like him makes me think this guy was kind of a momma's boy. More in the sense that he had some kind of really close and odd relationship with his mother.

Lonely Hearts

This poem is another one of those you read the first time and go, "WHAT?!?!" I've noticed there's a lot of those, I kind of think the poet just likes the shock value. They just want people to recognize their poems and well make them less boring. I know I'm probably just being biased since I don't like poetry and this might be outside the cone zone but sometimes I really just wonder if these poets that write these things are crazy. Anyway, back to the poem. This poem has some irony in that it it lists all of these extremely specific characteristics about someone, then specifies a location and still calls it a "simple" request. Overall though it seems pretty clear that this poem is really just satirizing all of these specific dating requests people have and post in public places.