Saturday, October 24, 2009

Poem 18

I read "The Fist" by Derek Walcott.
I thought by the title it would be a poem about anger, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. It was about the struggle between love, sanity, and life. In my mind it was about a lover dying and the other being so sad as to almost die itself. Quite the sad poem.

1 comment:

  1. Interesting analysis, Joe. Perhaps the fist is about control over the "struggle between love, sanity, and life". It could also represent a suffocation of those things.

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