Tou's favorite poem

Favorite Poem:
"The Daily Things We Do"


The daily things we do

For money or for fun

Can disappear like dew

Or harden and live on.

Strange reciprocity:

The circumstance we cause

In time gives rise to us,

Becomes our memory.





My interpretation:

From my point of view, i think this poem is talking about the things we do in life that can either live on with us or disappear as we go on in life. The reason i like this poem is because of the simile he used in the poem. An example of the metaphor he use is "the daily things we do for money or for fun can disappear like dew." He is comparing how the things we do can disappear like how a dew can evaporate.





Worst Poem:
"What I Dream of You Last Night"


Why did I dream of you last night?

Now morning is pushing back hair with grey light

Memories strike home, like slaps in the face;

Raised on elbow, I stare at the pale fog

beyond the window.



So many things I had thought forgotten

Return to my mind with stranger pain:

- Like letters that arrive addressed to someone

Who left the house so many years ago.





Why I don't Like it:

I don't really like this poem because he talks about the sad memories that he has experience in the past.

Lor's Interpretation

Favorite poem:

"Counting"

Thinking in terms of one
Is easily done -
One room, one bed, one chair,
One person there,
Makes perfect sense; one set
Of wishes can be met,
One coffin filled.

But counting up to two
Is harder to do;
For one must be denied
Before it's tried.

My Interpretation:
From my point of view on this poem "Counting" he likes to be alone and there only thing that he talks about is one, which is a symbol and a imaginary thing that we can see and are able to understand. The one in this poem seems to resemble a person that only has one thing in that he/she has to worry about and doesn't have to worry about another.
From the poem "For one must be denied Before it's tried" it seems like that one person is afraid that he/she is going to be rejected by that another one.

Worst Poem:

"Pour away that youth"

Pour away that youth
That overflow the heart
Into hair and mouth;
Take the grave's part,
Tell the bone's truth.

Throw away that youth
That jewel in the head
That bronze in the breath;
Walk with the dead
For fear of death.

My interpretation:
The reason why i don't like this poem is because it is really bad for someone who is young and reading something like this and finds out that they will get old and there is nothing that they can't do anything about it but just watch days go by and wait till the day they get old and then die.