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Poem Analysis
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Please analyze this poem and share the theme
DÉCOR
My covetous eye casts over you,
taking you apart. I’d like a trophy of you
for every room of the house.
The bend of your cocked wrist
in the join of a rafter to the wall;
an eyebrow floated in a cut-glass bowl;
and instead of an antimacassar
draping my overstuffed chair,
a crochet netting of your veins.
Something authoritative,
asymmetrical, perhaps
a bit outré. Featuring that spiral-
shaped mystery of gravitation,
making the room attend it,
composed, aware of distances.
What better in my front hall
with its fan light, its tall
mirrors, than the immaculate
roundness of your plump heel
and toes—substantial, rococo,
a handle for my front door:
warm to the touch,
it turns easily, opens….
You can go now.
—Monica Youn
DÉCOR
My covetous eye casts over you,
taking you apart. I’d like a trophy of you
for every room of the house.
The bend of your cocked wrist
in the join of a rafter to the wall;
an eyebrow floated in a cut-glass bowl;
and instead of an antimacassar
draping my overstuffed chair,
a crochet netting of your veins.
Something authoritative,
asymmetrical, perhaps
a bit outré. Featuring that spiral-
shaped mystery of gravitation,
making the room attend it,
composed, aware of distances.
What better in my front hall
with its fan light, its tall
mirrors, than the immaculate
roundness of your plump heel
and toes—substantial, rococo,
a handle for my front door:
warm to the touch,
it turns easily, opens….
You can go now.
—Monica Youn
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It's certainly valedictory, don't think it's a death. The words 'covetous' and 'trophy' make me think. The speaker is 'letting go' another with whom there has been a physical relationship
19:46 Sun 18th Jan 2015
It's from a book of Asian American poetry.
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Many poems don't rhyme and some don't scan
I'm not sure why it's not a poem, bhg.
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Many poems don't rhyme and some don't scan
I'm not sure why it's not a poem, bhg.
It's certainly valedictory, don't think it's a death. The words 'covetous' and 'trophy' make me think. The speaker is 'letting go' another with whom there has been a physical relationship, so far as I can interpret. I also think that the equation of the physical attributes of the 'loved' one with the home of the speaker indicates the importance of the surroundings and the need for security and self. This is far more complex than can be dealt with in this forum. It needs an essay.
'You can go now' indicates giving permission, is it genuine to someone who has been used sexually by a control freak or an attempt to regain some self-respect after a failed relationship. 'Trophy' can work with either.
I assume you can do your own metric/structural analysis and were looking for a clue as to the meaning. I've read it 3 times now and could write quite a lot about it. I've given you the directions in which you should be looking, now do it! I think the equation of body and house is important.
'You can go now' indicates giving permission, is it genuine to someone who has been used sexually by a control freak or an attempt to regain some self-respect after a failed relationship. 'Trophy' can work with either.
I assume you can do your own metric/structural analysis and were looking for a clue as to the meaning. I've read it 3 times now and could write quite a lot about it. I've given you the directions in which you should be looking, now do it! I think the equation of body and house is important.
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