The Green Room Poem Analysis

I hold the chapbook in my hand and question what the contents may hold. I breathe a sigh as I open it and see the first poem titled “The Green Room”. I reassure myself by saying “the chapbook is safe, the author is a faceless entity” and I begin to read her words. “The Green Room” gave me a feeling of melancholy and I assumed that the chapbook would be a theme of childhood memories from the viewpoint of an adult. When she speaks of the “green carpet” I was able to see in my mind’s eye the shag carpet that many children created fantasy forest and other adventures in during childhood. I ask myself after the initial poem “what does she mean by the ‘state of the ship’ and I was encouraged that I would be able to find the clarification within her prose. My encouragement quickly waned as her second poem created a sense of disorientation. The “State of the Ship” poem read like two different poems with the second part being completely out of sync with the rest of the poems. The escapism the girl describes as she dreams of faraway lands and people fits the …show more content…
The line “sweet little Shirley” allows her readers to gain an understanding that even as we age the memories of childhood quite possibly remain intact and towards the end will overrun the reality of the day. She uses the metaphor of the cul-de-sac to speak about the circle of life and then at the end of the chapbook she sums up the transition of the ages of life in one poem, “Don’t Ignore The Inchworm”. Throughout her chapbook, she speaks directly to her reader by using the words “You” and “Your”. Goldstein does this because she wants to give back to her reader through her memories what she has gained with maturity, and that would be the idea that we should all love. The bottom line of childhood experiences and recollecting the memories is that what was learned is love is the core of all