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.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Bicentennial
The first five stanzas of this poem, the author expresses a longing that I perceive for adventure or possibly even youth. He idolizes the time in his life spent "with a handful of banana-colored pills" when "everyone was beautiful" and the experiences and adventures that he had in those times. In the present he is sat with his mind "sit[ting] on its small white tee" as if to say it is a golf ball, perched in wait for the swing of a club or idling in disuse. There is also a longing for interaction, as he states, "for I need company," when referring to the present, and when referring to the past, "when my friends and I did copious amounts of ecstasy at a party."
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ReplyDeleteThe author expresses this childhood moment as "before I had done anything I regret,
therefore painting his childhood as a much simpler and perhaps sweeter time. He harkens to the feeling of nationalism he experiences during the bicentennial. I get the feeling that perhaps he is new to the country when he states "And foods that I have never had before," as one would assume that a 1976 barbecue by the lake would consist of hamburgers and hotdogs, lending more importance to the role of the bicentennial as he would be experiencing America for the first time at its peak nationalism when the entire country has erupted into a party.