Title: The Poetic World of Vievee Francis – Analysis of Forest Primeval
The poet, Vievee Francis, opens her book, Forest Primeval, with two short poems, “Another Antipastoral” and “White Mountain”. These two poems show broader thoughts of Francis such as how she sees and feels the world surrounding her as she introduces her new book of poems. A book of poems may have a number of different thoughts in each poem, but the different thoughts actually comes from one writer so the main notion behind the poet can be recognized. In the first introductory poem, “Another Antipastoral”, Francis confesses the difficulty of using words as a poet to wholly express her thoughts and feelings, “…Words fail me here. Can you understand? I sink to / my knees tired or not…” (line 4-5), “How could I know what slept inside? …” (line 12). In the next introductory poem, “White Mountain”, Francis describes her world as being shaken by wind as strong as the wind could shake the stone house, and her as being stumbling in the wind without having enough protection from the gale, “There’s a wind here so strong it shakes this stone house.” …show more content…
In the following lines, Francis uses enjambment between the lines when she talks about the cake baby she found and new responsibilities of being a parent. She used annotating line breaks, particularly after verb, to emphasize the situation she would experience if she had a baby, “… There are— / new considerations. I can’t just run / around the country flying toward any dream / that takes momentary hold. Now, I am / grounded by my responsibilities. …” (line 3-7). Throughout the book, she employs enjambments to show where she put more weight on her thoughts and how they
The poet, Vievee Francis, opens her book, Forest Primeval, with two short poems, “Another Antipastoral” and “White Mountain”. These two poems show broader thoughts of Francis such as how she sees and feels the world surrounding her as she introduces her new book of poems. A book of poems may have a number of different thoughts in each poem, but the different thoughts actually comes from one writer so the main notion behind the poet can be recognized. In the first introductory poem, “Another Antipastoral”, Francis confesses the difficulty of using words as a poet to wholly express her thoughts and feelings, “…Words fail me here. Can you understand? I sink to / my knees tired or not…” (line 4-5), “How could I know what slept inside? …” (line 12). In the next introductory poem, “White Mountain”, Francis describes her world as being shaken by wind as strong as the wind could shake the stone house, and her as being stumbling in the wind without having enough protection from the gale, “There’s a wind here so strong it shakes this stone house.” …show more content…
In the following lines, Francis uses enjambment between the lines when she talks about the cake baby she found and new responsibilities of being a parent. She used annotating line breaks, particularly after verb, to emphasize the situation she would experience if she had a baby, “… There are— / new considerations. I can’t just run / around the country flying toward any dream / that takes momentary hold. Now, I am / grounded by my responsibilities. …” (line 3-7). Throughout the book, she employs enjambments to show where she put more weight on her thoughts and how they