Need big help with poetry PLEASEE!

[lal4l]

Looking into a Face


Conversation brings us so close! Opening
The surfs of the body
Bringing fish up near the sun
And stiffening the backbones of the sea!

I have wandered in a face for hours
Passing through dark fires.
I have risen to a body
Not yet born
Existing like a light around the body
Through which the body moves like a sliding moon.


that is a poem i have to anylize for english class. What do you think that means pleaseee help!?

tony

[Nymet31]

Good luck!!!! I'm sure Ray or the others can help you w/ this one.... I always sucked at this stuff!!!

[rockin500]

did you write it yourself or were you given it?

[lal4l]

Originally posted by rockin500
did you write it yourself or were you given it?

given i want to know waht it means i have to nterprete it

[rockin500]

honestly, i have no clue!

[rockin500]

its pretty darned tough. i have to think on that for a long time. :(

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

its the process of finding onesself and being "reborn"

[Rockin Robin]

To me, it seems to be about a new relationship:

Conversation brings us so close!
There's a lot of talking at the beginning of a relationship as you get to know each other.

Opening
The surfs of the body
Bringing fish up near the sun
And stiffening the backbones of the sea!
Opening old wounds, letting down your guard

I have wandered in a face for hours
Passing through dark fires.
That transition period when you realize you have to let go of past hurts (dark fires) when you look into the face of your new potential partner.

I have risen to a body
Not yet born
I'm ready to rise to the challenge of a blossoming (not yet born) relationship.

Existing like a light around the body
Through which the body moves like a sliding moon.
The elation you feel at the beginning of a new relationship.


Maybe I've broken it down a little too much, and perhaps I'm way off target, but this is what it said to me.

Poetry is very subjective. The same poem can mean very different things to different people.

Only the author knows the true meaning of this piece.

[lal4l]

Originally posted by Rockin Robin
To me, it seems to be about a new relationship:


There's a lot of talking at the beginning of a relationship as you get to know each other.


Opening old wounds, letting down your guard


That transition period when you realize you have to let go of past hurts (dark fires) when you look into the face of your new potential partner.


I'm ready to rise to the challenge of a blossoming (not yet born) relationship.


The elation you feel at the beginning of a new relationship.


Maybe I've broken it down a little too much, and perhaps I'm way off target, but this is what it said to me.

Poetry is very subjective. The same poem can mean very different things to different people.

Only the author knows the true meaning of this piece.

That is awesome I love it thanks soooooo much! I really appreciate it!

[Rockin Robin]

No problem. Let me know if I'm right!

[awefullspellare]

i agree with RR

[uj4l]

now that i think about it that was a good one. i would have to agree with Robin

[PopTop]

Robin's right, poetry is subjective, to the reader that is ... It's no doubt very clear to the author.

Conversation brings us so close! Opening
The surfs of the body

(The power of talking things out, discovering and trying to exchange similar high and low tides, storms and calm seas of a life)

Bringing fish up near the sun
And stiffening the backbones of the sea!

(This part could be different things, a fish close to the sun is out of water and in danger, seas are generally fluid, not stiff at all even when at their calmest, could be uncovering danger in another's life, as well as each of our contradictions)

I have wandered in a face for hours
Passing through dark fires.

(Robin is spot-on if you ask me here, and it sort of goes with the "fish near the sun" bit, hearing about a dark or dangerous or out-of-character event or trait in another)

I have risen to a body
Not yet born

(A renewal of spirit or introduction or dedication to a new cause or belief, like the new relationship Robin suggests)

Existing like a light around the body
Through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

(Ever see a perfect halo around a full moon? I'm not a meteorologist, but I believe that is caused primarily by some form of precipitation, so we have a lot of references to water in this little work: fish, tides, seas. You also have both the sun and moon appearing. Best guess, the person who wrote this was falling in love with someone, churning all sorts of emotions inside, learning all their good and bad, giving birth to a new relationship, and it all happened in one day or over a weekend maybe someplace near the ocean or a lake. Could have been all so perfect or unexpected, the person felt it was magical, the work of angels, something like that.)

By the way, Robin, I'm impressed ... Thought I was the only weirdo who really got into poetry like that.

[Rockin Robin]

I spent my entire junior high years and much of my high school years writing tons and tons of poetry. (Gee, how odd for an adolescent girl. :hmm: ) But I never really stopped to analyze a peom as an adult. This one just seemed obvious.

[rockin500]

i try not to analyze it too much anymore cuz then i would start overanalyzing my own stuff and then get sad and then i would end up writing more sappy stuff. lol