Literature makes human beings different than other creatures. As one of the most important forms of literature, poetry helps people to express their inner feelings and takes readers to a wider world. Therefore, having a better understanding of poetry can help people to think questions in more diverse ways. This poetry explication will take the poem “The Girl Who Loved the Sky”, wrote by Anita Endrezze in year 1992 as an example to discover the magic of poetries. This poem describes a precious friendship between two girls—one who has no father, the other one is blind. Anita Endrezze uses the girl who had no father as story’s main speaker. With this girl’s story, Endrezze tells audiences an important idea: although a person is blind, she may
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At the beginning, the girl who had no father presents the classroom, sky and the world from her eyes. Everything just represents quite as it seems. As the persona illustrates, “The desks were made of yellowed wood / the tops littered with eraser rubbings / rulers, and big fat pencils” (lines 6-8). After the speaker meets the blind girl, how she looks at sky and world become different. The bind girl teaches her how to feel the sky by sounds, smells, touch and sights. For instance, in the words of the poem, “We heard the noon whistle of the pig-mash factory / smelled the sourness of home-bound men” (lines 26-28). With accompany of the blind girl, the poet finds their own happiness. Finally, the persona notes that she does not understand why the blind girl says she is born blind at first. However, after the blind girl moved, the persona realizes the blind girl brings beautiful world to her. With the leaving of the blind girl, the speaker feels the sky is far away from her too. Therefore, the speaker offers readers her anger to herself for being blind to the world, and her yearning for the blind girl at …show more content…
The sentence “I was born blind” has connotation behind it (40). When readers read this sentence at their first time, they may think the blind girl becomes the speaker. Until on the line 43, the truth becomes clearer to the audiences. The poet reveals shocking fact “The day she moved / I saw the world clearly: the sky / backed away from me like a departing father” (lines 43-45). Therefore, the girl who misses her father is the only speaker in this poem. At the same time, “I was born blind” means that the speaker does not realize that her world is full of dark until the blind girl moves. She finally realizes her best friend brings a beautiful world to her and teaches her how to observe world differently. But the reality is hurtful to the speaker. The blind girl moved already. And the poem presents an impressive moment at last “until my fist was another lantern / hiding a small and bitter flame” (lines 48-49). “Small flame” illustrates that the speaker’s anger to herself. With the leaving of the blind girl, she is aware of her darkness inside. Meanwhile, “bitter” represents that she really misses her best friend, which makes this special friendship touching to
At the beginning, the girl who had no father presents the classroom, sky and the world from her eyes. Everything just represents quite as it seems. As the persona illustrates, “The desks were made of yellowed wood / the tops littered with eraser rubbings / rulers, and big fat pencils” (lines 6-8). After the speaker meets the blind girl, how she looks at sky and world become different. The bind girl teaches her how to feel the sky by sounds, smells, touch and sights. For instance, in the words of the poem, “We heard the noon whistle of the pig-mash factory / smelled the sourness of home-bound men” (lines 26-28). With accompany of the blind girl, the poet finds their own happiness. Finally, the persona notes that she does not understand why the blind girl says she is born blind at first. However, after the blind girl moved, the persona realizes the blind girl brings beautiful world to her. With the leaving of the blind girl, the speaker feels the sky is far away from her too. Therefore, the speaker offers readers her anger to herself for being blind to the world, and her yearning for the blind girl at …show more content…
The sentence “I was born blind” has connotation behind it (40). When readers read this sentence at their first time, they may think the blind girl becomes the speaker. Until on the line 43, the truth becomes clearer to the audiences. The poet reveals shocking fact “The day she moved / I saw the world clearly: the sky / backed away from me like a departing father” (lines 43-45). Therefore, the girl who misses her father is the only speaker in this poem. At the same time, “I was born blind” means that the speaker does not realize that her world is full of dark until the blind girl moves. She finally realizes her best friend brings a beautiful world to her and teaches her how to observe world differently. But the reality is hurtful to the speaker. The blind girl moved already. And the poem presents an impressive moment at last “until my fist was another lantern / hiding a small and bitter flame” (lines 48-49). “Small flame” illustrates that the speaker’s anger to herself. With the leaving of the blind girl, she is aware of her darkness inside. Meanwhile, “bitter” represents that she really misses her best friend, which makes this special friendship touching to