| Water Picture | ||
| by May Swenson | ||
In the pond in the park all things are doubled: Long buildings hang and wriggle gently. Chimneys are bent legs bouncing on clouds below. A flag wags like a fishhook down there in the sky. The arched stone bridge is an eye, with underlid in the water. In its lens dip crinkled heads with hats that don't fall off. Dogs go by, barking on their backs. A baby, taken to feed the ducks, dangles upside-down, a pink balloon for a buoy. Treetops deploy a haze of cherry bloom for roots, where birds coast belly-up in the glass bowl of a hill; from its bottom a bunch of peanut-munching children is suspended by their sneakers, waveringly. A swan, with twin necks forming the figure 3, steers between two dimpled towers doubled. Fondly hissing, she kisses herself, and all the scene is troubled: water-windows splinter, tree-limbs tangle, the bridge folds like a fan. | ||
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Water Picture
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"In the pond in the park
ReplyDeleteall things are doubled"
That means your shadow is the double figure . Its like looking at your reflection.Water picture to me means the refection of anything near the water. Maybe this means the refection is the real you .
Water Picture
ReplyDeleteby May Swenson
"The arched stone bridge
is an eye, with underlid
in the water. In its lens
dip crinkled heads with hats
that don't fall off."
I love the image I saw from reading those two lines ^^ . It's a great description. It's typical to look down into a lake and see your relfection, I see it in movies all the time. Overall, the poem had a great flow and it was really descriptive.
Water Picture
ReplyDeleteby May Swenson
"where birds coast belly-up"
This line gives the image of the reflection of birds flying in the water. It gives really awesome imagery that I can clearly see in my head. I can also hear, and smell what's going on in this scenario. It's very nice to be able to read a poem and be able to almost be where the writer is describing. I guess that's the whole point of using imagery- to be able to take the reader to the place where you want them to be.
"Water Picture"
ReplyDeleteBy:May Swenson
"A swan, with twin necks
forming the figure 3,
steers between two dimpled
towers doubled. Fondly
hissing, she kisses herself"
I like the imagary of this poem. At first it was confusing to me until i read it again and understood everything. The scenery she projects is very beautiful. Like its sweet and serene. It's a scene that makes you want to be there watching the pond and swan.
Water Picture 2/16/12
ReplyDeleteby May Swenson
"In the pond in the park
all things are doubled:"
This poem has amazing imagery in it. You could really see everything, and picture it clearly. The pond the author talks about was shown really well, especially with how she talks about the reflection in the lake water, and then how everything is destroyed when the water rippels. Its a fragile image so its is easily ruined; and the author captures that moment perfectly.