I remember looking at this poem in an English class a couple years ago. It always stood out to me because of how ambiguous yet interesting it was. That's an interesting quality a lot of poetry has-- you can't just take it at face value. If you did, you would get a completely different understanding of the poem and this is a poem that exemplifies that concept
A Square Poem by Lewis Carroll
It's short and sweet but it's still kind of dense. I like this poem because of its ambiguity, though. We're always trying to analyze poems and pick them apart and see what the author intended for us to grasp from it-- even though we always seem to grasp something different from it than our peers. Another reason I like this poem is because of how simple the title is. It misleads you, thinking the short, blunt title is for a simple poem when it really isn't.
I like dealing with how unfamiliar this poem is because the unfamiliar tends to make us uncomfortable. As I said above, whenever we seem something confusing or complicated, our first instinct is to break it down in smaller, more understandable pieces. But there's something interesting about how squeamish we get when we encounter something we can't break down or try to understand and this poem does just that. It leaves you fazed, yet wanting more.
A Square Poem by Lewis Carroll
I often wondered when I cursed,
Often feared where I would be—
Wondered where she'd yield her love,
When I yield, so will she.
I would her will be pitied!
Cursed be love! She pitied me ...
Often feared where I would be—
Wondered where she'd yield her love,
When I yield, so will she.
I would her will be pitied!
Cursed be love! She pitied me ...
It's short and sweet but it's still kind of dense. I like this poem because of its ambiguity, though. We're always trying to analyze poems and pick them apart and see what the author intended for us to grasp from it-- even though we always seem to grasp something different from it than our peers. Another reason I like this poem is because of how simple the title is. It misleads you, thinking the short, blunt title is for a simple poem when it really isn't.
I like dealing with how unfamiliar this poem is because the unfamiliar tends to make us uncomfortable. As I said above, whenever we seem something confusing or complicated, our first instinct is to break it down in smaller, more understandable pieces. But there's something interesting about how squeamish we get when we encounter something we can't break down or try to understand and this poem does just that. It leaves you fazed, yet wanting more.
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