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1. This respond should be addressed to Frederick Sanders,
The poem that I chose for this week’s reading was “A Little Tooth” written in 1989 by Thomas Lux. When I first was the poem I was a little bit confused on what the author was trying to say. It took me a second time to read the poem to develop an understanding. Once I took my time and dissected the poem bit by bit I soon understood that the poem was a reference on life and growing up. The image that stands out the most to me is the title and the beginning lines. When you first hear the title you would think that the poem would be strictly about a tooth coming in for a baby or maybe a small child losing a tooth. While it does speak on that briefly, the poem really focuses on growing up from the time that you get your first tooth. This is a tactic that most poets use to grab the attention of readers. For example, If you’re writing a poem about the death of a child, and you want the audience to experience some immediate emotion, the worst thing you can do is begin by telling them this poem is about a child’s death (Thorsen, 2018). The poet uses a realistic approach in the poem. He quickly makes you think of life events that are not always mentioned because they are not that of a perfect life. Sometimes a poem blindsides you by taking you somewhere you had no intention of going. But you don’t have to wait for that to happen (Muhammad, 2017). The main question that this poem raises for me is: How true is this poem to the author? Is he really speaking out about his own daughter? What real emotion did he feel behind this? The poem does not rhyme but that does not take away meaning from the poem. I honestly cannot relate to the poem but I do like it. One of the main reasons that I like the poem is because it gives a realistic view of life instead of the happy picture that is always portrayed.
2. This should be addressed to Laddie Rice,
I chose to discuss The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. This poem was written in 1915 and follows a theme that Frost used frequently in that it stays in a woodsy setting such as another Frost poem that I am fond of, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. In this poem, the readers find themselves standing in the woods and considering which fork to take. The remarkable thing about the fork in the road is that neither path is worn any more than the other is, and that the choice cannot really be made with any certain outcome. Frost uses “I” in a retrospective person hood and as a measuring marker for all that “is given” , (Miller, 2017).
In reading the poem I found myself struck with the thoughts of navigating life and how we are all faced with choosing paths that are not clearly marked and how even though we may plan on returning and trying the other path at some point, we never do. Once we decide on a particular path, the other will vanish from our travels and we will never journey back to where we made the original choice. It seems that the authors walk is a typical sensation-scape for his writings (Starr, 2017) and I find this approach to be the most appealing for me.
In examining the structure of the poem, I found that it rhymed; but not really in the flow that I appreciate. It took reading this poem many times before I found the rhythm or lack of rhythm depending on how I read it. As earlier stated, I like how Frost uses the first person approach in telling the story and how he uses the outdoors to illustrate his points.
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Frederick Sanders
Your discussion is really enlightening. I experienced similar difficulty when I first read Thomas
Lux’s poem, “A Little Tooth.” I also found the image of the tooth to be a major symbol in this
poem. I would also like ...
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