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This is a college level tranfer course, the second in a series where we will examine the poetics of life lived on the ground...as in rough and tumble, as in America at war with herself. This is a world art alone makes sense of, an artist's work is a gift freely shared like air...sympathetic systems aligned, the the fictive or imaginary worlds of possiblity simply an inhale or exhale away. This class is an opportunity to close your eyes and believe.
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Tia Gangopadhyay
Professor Sabir
English 1B 9-10:50 AM
1 November 2011
Speaker/Listener Poetry Analysis
Reetika Vazirani's poem "It's Me, I'm Not Home," exemplifies the literary technique of speaker and listener. Throughout the poem, the repeated line, "leave a message after the beep" conveys the speaker's indifference toward his listener (5). The whole context of the poem seems to express a certain passivity. The speaker is telling the listener that while "A loves B," "B loves C [and] C won't answer" (5). This parallels to what the speaker is doing. While the listener is calling the speaker, the speaker does not answer and expects the listener to "leave a message after the beep" (5). The speaker is trying to express to the listener the ideas of fleeting romances and quick ending marriages which are causing him to give up and go to sleep, rather than stay up and answer the phone. It is almost as if the speaker is telling the listener that he is done trying to communicate and put in fruitless effort. Today, he is not going to answer the phone. Today, he wants the listener to "leave a message after the beep" (5).
Works Cited
Vazirani, Reetika. "It's Me, I'm Not Home." Indivisible: An Anthology of Contemporary South Asian American Poetry. Ed. Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, and Pireeni Sundaralingam. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2010. 5. Print.
Adetona Adewale
Professor Sabir
English 1B
03 November 2011
Sasha Kamini Parmasad poem “Old Man” I say that jokingly but that’s the actually title and it is perfect for expressing speaking and listening aspects of the poem. From the beginning of the poem until the ending of the poem you can actually taste the words if you’re the listener and if you’re the speaker you can visualize the words that you’re using as well. Just listening takes you to the very humid location because of the word play that speaker has chosen to use.
In addition, to all that the speaker tries to lure you in by making you think about events that happened in the past and makes you connect the words to the present. Also from the listener’s stand point of view the graphic imagines depicted from the orator that was speaking drew feelings of sadness out of me. More importantly the speaker and the listener both have highly imperative role in delivering the message of this poem.
This poem’s speaker is really good at drawing you in and forcing you to recall past eras and reflect upon your current realities. This poem’s listeners play a huge part in the ultimate comprehension of the poem and why it is being told in the first place. Finally, these two elements when it comes to poems help us to develop a better understanding for the sole purpose of poetry.
Works Cited
Parmashad, Sasha Kamini. Indivisible. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas, 2010. Print.
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