This conversation was by far the most interesting I have had on takes of poetry. Ming and myself analyzed two poems. One was Insomnia by Elizabeth Bishop and the other was Exit by Rita Dove. Both of these poems seem to be straightforward when first read but as we went back and analyzed the poems together we realized how different our interpretations of the poems actually are.
For Insomnia I was focusing on the night being personified as a woman and played through fantasy and reality while Ming approached it as an actual woman and the mirror reflection being the main points. Having both of these ideas in mind we came to a conclusion that her focal points of fantasy and reality came in the switch at the third stanza of the poem. We both agreed that the night however was being personified.
We were going to do the same analysis on Exit however do to limited time in class and the time we spent on our other conversation we just read an analysis done on that poem by someone else and continued our discussion. Overall a very productive and interesting period.
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