2nd Half City Eclogue

In the second half of the reading it was not as engaging as the first half. The section “Open” an interesting poem was on page 77 called “Engine.” The spacing in the poem does give a more dramatic phrasing. There is a lot of imagery within the poem. Overall I find this poem to be about an average workman’s life. One of my favorite lines in the poems is “into a gear you didn’t know would shift you can tell you runnin’ “. It compares the human body to an engine being taken into overdrive. It also refers to a suit case could symbolized a person’s mind. In the next section, “Ornithologies” on page 95 there is a short poem about the time boards at a station. There is a structural pattern of long line short line and repeat. One phrase that grabbed my attention was “metal winged panel.” In the last few sections, there was one poem called “The Counsel of Birds.” The paragraphs are in sets of four lines. This poem has a lot of personification. It brings alive the alarm because it cannot wait or shove down anything. Though I did not overall enjoy the second half of series of poems I found some gems in the ruff.