Blog Post #6: Poetry
The poem I chose was "The Lost Pilot" by James Tate. The conflict being addressed in the poem is a man struggling with his loss of direction and control as I have researched among my resources such as the internet. The topic is about a man discussing in a poem about the grief of his father or a male figure authority. The overall tone of the poem is sadness. It made me feel as if the writer of the poem wants you to express the emotion of grief with tears. The specific words that made me feel this way are misfortune, rot, dead, and residue. My own honest assessment of the poem is difficult because I am, one of the people that can not understand poetry or like it. I admit I had to ask my sister and research online what the poem was talking about honestly, because I thought it was about the writer dying and writing about his death. However, that is not the case as in the poem it is about the writer of the poem grieving about his father. I had to search up a couple of words such as cajole and ebony. Cajole is defined as to persuade someone to do something by coaxing or flattery. Ebony is defined as a description of a color of black or dark brown.
"If I could cajole you to come back for an evening, down from your compulsive orbiting,...."
"----it grew dark, and hard like ebony;
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