Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 220 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Porn by Dorothea Lasky
This poem really drew me in. The undertone in the poem is revovles around freedom versus captivity. In the poem the a women attempts to gain her freedom from her husband by having public sex with someone else. But the question is raised if the act is actually making her free. Then the attention is quickly shifted towards the reader. How free is the reader? The author is holding us captive with her provocative details in this short poem.
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Nice response!
ReplyDeleteThe title of the poem , which is "Porn" definitely is a good fit as I felt different emotions while reading it. At first I felt liberated , then I felt sad after reading " Cause I'll never be in love" ... to then feel positive when the author writes "except with you dear reader".
ReplyDeleteWhen reading this poem I initially thought Lasky was comparing the fantasy of porn to the fantasy of novels, perhaps romance novels. She cries because her reality is not the heart warming romance she'd like, when she says "And now I'm crying Because that man looks like an ex boyfriend...A monster... Someone who left me in the dark...Someone who darkened me". I thought maybe, there was a sexual maltreatment from the men in her life. So I believe that the comparison of reading a piece of writing is the same as porn because they both allow an escape of sexual reality.
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