These two poems are called “A House of My Own,” and “Saturday at the Canal.” When I read the first poem, the woman was very happy that she got her own home, and have it all for herself. Because the way she said about several things such as that she has her pillow, purple petunias, books, and stories.
I got the feeling that this woman is elderly because she said “Nobody to shake a stick at.” The saying sounds like she has a walking cane. Most of the time, old people will set their shoes right next to their bed. She said “Only a house quiet as snow, a space for myself to go.” This also helped me to imagine her as an old lady.
I did not know what petunias was until I looked it up in the dictionary. It’s a flower, and it’s colored purple in the poem. One thing that I do not understand is what she meant by saying this, “…clean as paper before the poem.” I want to know what that saying means.
I want to know why was she so happy to have her own house and space? Why did she mention that it was not a man’s house of her dad’s house? Is it because she had horrible experiences with men? Or with her father? What kind of house did she own? If she really is an old lady? I will be so happy to find out the answers to those questions.
The second poem is about two boys (I see them as a boy, correct me if I am wrong). This part on they wanted to hitchhike reminded me of my sister. My sister hitchhiked to Mexico when she was thirteen years old. She went there because she was not happy in Michigan.
I do not understand this poem almost at all. I want to know what he meant by “The teachers were too close to dying to understand.” Does this mean that the teachers are old? “The years froze as we sat on the bank.” Does that mean that the time to them are very slow like a snail’s pace? I want to know why he wanted to be happy by age of seventeen? Why did they want to hitchhike to San Francisco? Is it because they hated the city/town/village they lived in? Why were they lonely? Is there nothing that has interesting events, and displays to keep them stay at where they live?
I did not like those two poems because the first one is too short, and vague. The second one is really hard to understand. Because I do not relate to them because I definitely am not lonely or wanting to leave my hometown. Also, that there’s many phrases that I do not understand. Only if the first poem was longer and has more descriptions. Only if the second poem is more clearer and understandable.
To me there are two common themes in the poems. Those two common themes are pursuit of happiness and escape-ness. The woman is happy to live on her own and the boys seem looking for their happiness by wishing that they leave from where they live. Both seem trying to escape from something like the woman seems to escape from people, men, and noises while the boys seem to try to escape from the loneliness.
Overall, both poems are unsatisfying to me. I want to find out more about both poems so I can quench my curiosity. The both poems deal with happiness and escape-ness.
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