Readings for 4/1

Sylvia Plath sparked my interest this week. Her poems were a revealing peep into her life. She used the Holocaust a lot in both of her poems. I thought that was very interesting. She is able to create a strong image in readers mind's with her strong wording. I really enjoyed Child! The way she starts off with a kind of innocence then at the end BAM the real world is there. She makes the world feel so empty when she says "Not this troublous wringing of hands, this dark ceiling without a star." I hate when I cannot see stars in the sky. I get excited when I am able to see a constellation in the sky. With that one line she is able to take a certain part of life away. In Daddy Plath shows that she has serious issues with her father. It was interesting to read how she expressed her feelings about her father.
James Baldwin's story Good Country People was really entertaining. It paralleled with The Confidence Man by having a con artist. The last paragraph of the story where the guy takes her leg and tells her "one time I got a woman's glass eye this way" made me crack up. She ended up getting taken advantage of instead of her taking advantage of the guy. Things just went down hill for her. She lost her leg and her man friend.
Elizabeth Bishops poem Fish was very entertaining. She was able to admire every detail of a fish like he was a god. She describe everything on the fish with dramatic wording that lets the reader feel as if they are seeing the fish for themselves. I enjoyed how she described all the hooks as "a five- haired beard of wisdom" it was a very intriguing way to describe past escapes from being caught.
All-in-all I enjoyed this weeks reading very much they were are similar but different in big ways.