Sunday, February 10, 2008

The celebration of disorder.

The poem i chose was, "Forgetfulness." This poem illustrates the celebration of disorder throughout the entire piece, but most brilliantly in the line, "long ago you kissed the names of the nin Muses goodbye, and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag..."(Buco, Osso). This line is always the highlight of the poem for me. When reading these lines I feel aas if I am an alszimers patient and cannot remember trivial things that I used to kow without thinking. It is a celebration of disorder because in an orderly mind i guess, memories would be easy to recall and not supratic. In addition to this, within this same poem I found the celbration of disorder in the line, "No wonder the moon in the window seems to have drifted out of a love poem that you used to know by heart"(Buco, Osso). The last line in the poem is the summation of the poems disorder because in a way to think as love as being a drift that was found in a love poem known to someone at one point in time, but is now gone, the question of what is the purpose of loving? surfaces in my mind. The disorder in this poem is amazing and is similar to how a lot of people go about their lives, in sparts and random comings and goings.

"Forgetfulness," by Osso Buco

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