. The first little tornado says, in my dream, i am galloping on the winds of a violent revolution, stretching straight letter I, a storm of churning voices collected into a single spine. i am radical rapid turning, uprooting houses blasting open government offices, swarms of solid atmosphere and saltwater rising against the pyramids rearing on the horizon blackening out whole suns collective thun der (Tornado 1-17)
Using a tornado as an image effectively conveys the way the speaker feels in terms of their actions. The form conveys the physicality of the tornado, while the words depict what is essential in describing the nature of tornados, it conveys the fear and anxiety associated with tornados, while conveying the ideas that the speaker wishes to relay to the reader. The shorter …show more content…
Tornados are one of my biggest fears, but it was interesting to see how Choi such a scary occurrence to convey her idea of uprising and inner strength.
In addition, Choi’s poem “Native Language” also had an interesting lay out. On the page the poem appears as a page from a book, but with most of the words blacked out leaving certain words visible in a jumbled order. This type of poem is called Blackout poetry. Essentially, the author takes a page from a book, and blacks out the page except for a few words, creating a new story from the existing one. While Choi’s poem was created specifically to look this way, and she probably did not use an existing page from a book to do this, I think she intended to make the poem appear as if it was taken from another story, and to make it feel as if she created something new from it. The first few lines begin “My mother / talk to me? / everything came spilling out” (Native 1-3) set the tone for the poem, as the speaker struggles with connecting with their
Using a tornado as an image effectively conveys the way the speaker feels in terms of their actions. The form conveys the physicality of the tornado, while the words depict what is essential in describing the nature of tornados, it conveys the fear and anxiety associated with tornados, while conveying the ideas that the speaker wishes to relay to the reader. The shorter …show more content…
Tornados are one of my biggest fears, but it was interesting to see how Choi such a scary occurrence to convey her idea of uprising and inner strength.
In addition, Choi’s poem “Native Language” also had an interesting lay out. On the page the poem appears as a page from a book, but with most of the words blacked out leaving certain words visible in a jumbled order. This type of poem is called Blackout poetry. Essentially, the author takes a page from a book, and blacks out the page except for a few words, creating a new story from the existing one. While Choi’s poem was created specifically to look this way, and she probably did not use an existing page from a book to do this, I think she intended to make the poem appear as if it was taken from another story, and to make it feel as if she created something new from it. The first few lines begin “My mother / talk to me? / everything came spilling out” (Native 1-3) set the tone for the poem, as the speaker struggles with connecting with their