Good evening one and all. It's once again time for my to post a response to the readings assigned to me in class. This past week I was assigned to read What Holds The Body by Jennifer K. Dick, and I have to admit, I have mixed feelings about it. For starters, the poem isn't really a poem at all, but instead a story told through many fragmented sentences. I found this writing style to be frustrating and hard to understand.
On the other hand, I have to admit that poem's writing style was intriguing. The way it was set up, you would get fragments of information that didn't make sense. However, after reading on further, you would get another fragment that would make the last bit of information make sense. This cycle continued until you reached the last line of the poem, and then everything made sense, yet strangely enough, it didn't make sense. While I didn't particularly like the writing style, it was in fact complex and interesting.
Finally, the language used in the poem is very interesting. For example, at the start of the poem Jennifer writes, "I want to begin at the beginning the beginning of begin and just begin..." It goes on and several more words with "begin" are used. I feel like she wanted to enforce the idea that it was the beginning, and did so by writing begin over ad over again. There are other examples of her weird use of language. Jennifer writes, "We are in the kitchen. I want to ask how we got here. And I finger your face, your nose to be sure we are." I find that line to be completely strange, and it puts a very weird image in the readers' heads. All in all, the poem is written t be complex and requires some serious analytical skills. Personally I didn't care for the poem, but I'm sure there are others out there that can appreciate the poem and all its complexities.
good response.
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