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The two poems I chose for this weeks blog post were "Letter Composed During a Lull in Fighting" by Kevin C. Powers, and "Compendium of Lost Objects" by Nicole Cooley. These were extremely interesting poems to me mainly because of the multipke ways to interpret them, but also because of the tone taken during the poem. My favorite of the two in "Letter Composed During a Lull in Fighting." I think it is because of the location of the narrator (a war zone) and the fact that he is talking like it is just another day at the office. There is no panick in the letter, there is no trauma or stress, he is just writing to tell his love of the way his life is lived in this new place. He compares his love for her to a ten minute nap, and talks about resting his gun on the low ceiling in order to get that nap. However, he deos not seem to be sad or meloncholy about it, he is just being informative, an intriguing characteristic to me for a man in a war zone. The second poem "Compendium of Lost Objects" was also very interesting to me though. The author is speaking of the things lost, however they are not what we would expect to miss. She speaks of missing glass, or a cot in the dumpster, but she uses word play to tangle the reader. I myself had to read and re-read this poem several times in order to even think I know what is being said, and I am still unsure! I would like to think of this poem like a river, it flowes from one topic to the next, but twists and turns making it hard to read straight through however intriguing the journey is.
http://www.wisegeek.com/why-is-poetry-difficult.htm-This helped me understand the reading of a difficult poem.
