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Gay Marriage

             From our assigned readings I have really enjoyed a few of the poems and had a hard time deciding on which one to write on. In high school I was co-president of the Idaho Falls High School Poet Society and we spent a lot of time reading Plath because she has such vivid detail and it's not as hard to understand her writing as compared to Shakespeare. So, I've decided to write on Point Shirley.
             I personally have never been to the east coast except for in my dreams and imagination. I've seen pictures and read stories, but I've never had the opportunity to visit the quaint little villages in Nantucket or eat lobster in Maine. Reading this poem though really placed me in Point Shirley. I was able to picture all of the surroundings from the jail cell to grandmother's boarded up house, the withered geranium beds, and laundry bits flapping in the wind under the storm. Her descriptions and choice of words really place me right at the point and make for a visual experience and not just a reading.
             I really enjoy the words that she chooses to write with also. Things like describing grandmother as gracious and the sea as sluttish and rutty. Some of the words are hard like eiders and spumiest were very hard to understand without the definition, but once I knew what the words meant it just added so much more depth to the whole poem.
             I think it's very sad that she played Hansel and Gretel with herself because she must have had so much more that she could have shared with the world.
            


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