Post Modernism Piece (This is a poem based on my second story The Truth is Out)

My attempt at a Post Modernism Poem...

 Escape

Arms, Palms, hands are sweaty.

Breathing in and out

Looking into the bag for air,

Night falls on my head and the wind pushes my face sideways.

BOOM     BOOM     BOOM

What was that? I whisper.

The light at the end of the tunnel flickers.

Onandoff.

Onandoff.

Ssssshhhhhhhhhh.

Shadows run from behind.

Red light.

Green light.

Yellow light.

Wheels spinning round and round,

Faces turn from north to south,

Missiles dripping from the sky

Left and right heads turn.

Then shattering glass intertwines with metal and steel.

Crash,

C r 

        a ck,

Sp-lit.

As I wait to hear the sound of lightning running from behind me.

Because Lightning roars at the sound of terror.

A Reflection on The Pink Institution and Post Modernism

This book can be seen in a postmodern light because of the way it challenges the modern style that we read in so many books today. This book attacks the common roles that we find in book such as male versus female or blacks versus whites, but rather it attempts to create problems relating to modernism by creating characters that the reader often finds problematic and that we often have to figure out on our own from their exterior. In this postmodern work I found that Saterstrom created an open work, meaning she left the reader to think and supply our own connections and ideas as to how to interpret what we just read about the situation and the characters. “Postmodernism focuses on a vision of a contradictory, fragmented, ambiguous, indeterminate, unfinished, "jagged" world”. Looking at the relationship that Saterstrom has created in this book really got me thinking about characters in my book. Saterstrom  introduces, Abella who is married to the abusive Micajah who is an alcoholic policeman. His beatings and likely sexual abuse takes a toll on their daughter, Azalea.

When we focus on the poetic elements, I can say that this book was very tangible from the beginning where the daughter is eating crackers and all the mother could focus on was her messy hair. I loved the description from the very beginning and the way Saterstrom made a visual picture throughout the text really gave this book an extra specialness about it. This book has a lot of devastating stories and serious issues, especially Aza who tries to commit suicide all the time because of her terrible upbringing. The way the Saterstrom gets into describing scenes with such tangibility is great. Also she often leaves large spaces in between the words that allows the reader to figure things out on their own and that’s the thing I most liked about this book. I thought that Saterstrom's novel depicts a family that is dealing with their own disfunctions and I loved the picture that Saterstrom paints.  

Blogging about Emily Dickinson

The poem I memorized was "I dwell in possibility"

When I first read it, I had no idea what I was reading. I didn't know what cedars was and I didn't really know what the meaning of this poem was. So after I researched some words and read this poem over this is what I got from it. I think that she means that there are endless possibilities in the way that we live. I think that she is dwelling in all the possibilities, and that she's thinking of all of these things inside her head. She is invisioning the sky as the limits, and a house with many doors and windows. I think towards the end when the last stanza ends in "to gather paradise" that she was thinking that all her possibilities would somehow end in a great place such as paradise.  

Dickinson was very clever in the way she wrote this poem. The poetic devices and the words that she uses to describe the sky, the house. I love the vocabulary that Dickinson uses. If you really break down this poem then it would be endless of interpretations that you can think of because this poem leaves room for many possibilities.