Oh No

Robert Creeley creates a fantastic image with this poem. It's only two stanzas long with an abab rhyme scheme in the first stanza and an aa bb rhyme scheme in the second stanza. This poem has very simple diction and is an easy read. This simple and straight to the point poem represents the idea of the piece. I see this poem as representing a person arriving in heaven because the poem talks about having a chair available for you only, and thats symbolic of God always having a place for a person in heaven no matter who the person is. This poem represents a person dying and going to heaven and the poem is so straightforward that its kind of like death because death is so straight forward; everybody dies eventually and it's inevitable. Also, the poem starts off with wandering too far and this poem could be talking about how everybody gets off track sometimes and your not alone.

Writing

Sadie and I presented this and I really like the depth behind this poem even though it comes off as very simple. This piece of writing that a student does for a teacher and the commentary she gives back represents how much grammar a teacher looks at instead of the idea and creativeness behind the writing. The kid is obviously writing about a serious event in her life and the teacher doesn't even acknowledge what the student is actually saying. Even the structure of the how the child writes with the uneven spacing between words and the wrong spelling of such words as "agenst" and "dor" show that the child comes from background or home. The teacher even mentions that maybe next time the student will have "more to say" which is ridiculous because what the child is saying has a lot to say about the child's home life and a very violent memory in this kid's mind. The piece almost has some irony because sometimes grammar is so focused on when the idea behind the piece should be more important and here the teacher is saying that the child didn't write enought. This piece is very depressing but true.