Analyzing Marcia Conley Carter's Poem 'Rescued'

In the poem ¨Did You Ever¨ by Marcia Conley Carter the theme is “Poems are hard to complete or finish as long as it may seem or as hard as it is never give up;some accomplishment always prevails” First, “how hard it must have been … To think of a subject, one to intrigue readers” The difficulty is shown and it is trying to explain how a poem can take so much effort and the author never seems to give up. Giving you a different outlook on poems as a whole. Later on, the author says “Imagine the long hours she sat writing… Crossing out, trying it again and again, diving for the right word” This is furthering the understanding that writing a poem is not easy and no matter how you look at it is giving you a consideration of someone else no matter …show more content…
When he has failed to succeed his standards of a theme he rolls back and starts from the beginning meaning he never finds a perfect poem and seems to always start again. Next, “I make it over the hill to glimpse the paradise of a finished poem But I don’t watch where I’m writing and my poem veers off the narrow road and crashes into a tree.¨ Once he has completed perfection and a finished poem he has completed what seems perfect but when he seems to have finished he is left to crash and crash again meaning he is never finding perfection. Last, ¨So I scramble out of the mangled mess and wait for the one person who can tow me and my hissing poem home.¨ As he seems to have found his point of no return he seems to never give up lifting himself up out of what seems failure and hisses his poem him to try and try again until he reaches the conclusion of imperfection and the real perfection in which is imperfection and gets a somewhat considered good to him poem and successfully gets himself over the hill of his poem. Finally, I can safely say that the theme I have given