Blog Post Report #3 -Caitlynn Hancock
The one reading that stuck out to me, was Diving into the Wreck. It is a very interesting poem that is beautifully written. It relates to a few ideas from How to Interpret Literature, by Robert Dale Parker, but the main idea that it relates to is the Structuralist idea, a metaphor. There are quite a few metaphors in this poem. A metaphor is simply comparing something to another thing.
One of the main parts of the poem that really strikes as a metaphor is, "...the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the disaster.." this is a metaphor when it says the disaster is the ribs. The disaster doesn't really have ribs, however, just like the human body, the ribs are what protects the organs around it, the ribs are part of the skeleton and the skeleton is the foundation of the body. Now, the author, Adrienne Rick, is saying that the disaster still has something holding it together, it still maintains the beauty although it has been worn by the salt and water surrounding it.
Another part of the poem that relates to this idea is when it says, "...And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black, the merman in his armored body. We circle silently about the wreck we dive into the hold. I am she: I am he.." This part is a little confusing, but she is saying that she is a mermaid and a merman who is circling the wreck which is a metaphor because she is comparing herself to something that she is not.
One last part that is a metaphor is, "...we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held to a course the water-eaten log the fouled compass..." which when it compares "we" to instruments is the metaphor in this.
With all of these examples throughout of the different metaphors throughout, this poem is one big metaphor. The author is making it so that she is part of the wreck itself. She is making it a different insight where she is describing it in a way that she is part of the wreck. Which is one great big metaphor of the entire poem. Now, at first it doesn't seem that way, but with the last few stanzas it makes it seem like she is the wreck,
One of the main parts of the poem that really strikes as a metaphor is, "...the evidence of damage worn by salt and sway into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the disaster.." this is a metaphor when it says the disaster is the ribs. The disaster doesn't really have ribs, however, just like the human body, the ribs are what protects the organs around it, the ribs are part of the skeleton and the skeleton is the foundation of the body. Now, the author, Adrienne Rick, is saying that the disaster still has something holding it together, it still maintains the beauty although it has been worn by the salt and water surrounding it.
Another part of the poem that relates to this idea is when it says, "...And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair streams black, the merman in his armored body. We circle silently about the wreck we dive into the hold. I am she: I am he.." This part is a little confusing, but she is saying that she is a mermaid and a merman who is circling the wreck which is a metaphor because she is comparing herself to something that she is not.
One last part that is a metaphor is, "...we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held to a course the water-eaten log the fouled compass..." which when it compares "we" to instruments is the metaphor in this.
With all of these examples throughout of the different metaphors throughout, this poem is one big metaphor. The author is making it so that she is part of the wreck itself. She is making it a different insight where she is describing it in a way that she is part of the wreck. Which is one great big metaphor of the entire poem. Now, at first it doesn't seem that way, but with the last few stanzas it makes it seem like she is the wreck,
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