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Finally finished icdi reading dylm now 😊

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poetry journal

1. The Sailor by Geof Hewitt

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grabbing every 13 yo girl by the arms and yelling "YOU LOOK FINE !!!!!!! DON'T SPEND UR ALLOWANCE ON CONCEALERS GO SEE A BAD MOVIE INSTEAD !!!!!!!!!!! BEAUTY IS POETRY AND SONGS AND LAUGHTER W FRIENDS AND COLORFUL LEAVES !!!!!!!!!! GO READ A MARY OLIVER POEM AND YOU'LL BE OK!!!!!!!!!"

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read The Sailor by Geof Hewitt here are my thoughts!!

Initial feelings: eerie and tragic. The language used does not imply any sympathy and that’s because right from the beginning, the speaker establishes that this scene is taking place in a movie. The poem feels like a somewhat disconnected retelling of the scene.

However, it’s not really the language that makes the reader feel inevitably sympathetic, but rather the details of the story. For example, “pawing at the water.” The image that popped up in my mind was of a helpless and clumsy animal trying to swim. The audience can picture what the movie character was suffering through. A few other examples, “And doesn’t know he’s only fifty feet from shore” and “He goes under for what will be the last time / But only a few feet down scrapes bottom.” The character is in shallow water (for who knows how long) but doesn’t realize it until he’s nearly about to drown. It’s like a “Seriously?” moment.

The eerie part was definitely the ending. The way it’s written, “As he dreams the tide comes in / And rolls him back to sea,” feels lighthearted? I’m not sure that’s the right word, but the scene is quite terrifying and tragic. In his most vulnerable state, his dreams (dream having a positive connotation), he is taken right back to where he began. It reminded me of the Great Gatsby final quote: “…so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” I also connected this poem with the punishment of sisyphus. The idea of fighting tirelessly against fate/circumstance and inevitably failing.

(messy thoughts and probably kinda out there but we'll get there)

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