Thursday, May 27, 2010
The Hitchhikers
This poem is not only about hitchhikers but it also symbolizes a relationship. The writer is afraid of picking up a hitchhiker becuase of the look on their faces, the desparate look of need and affection. A bond that the writer does not want to make. Then she compares a hitchhiker to a relationship. Apparently she was once in a two year relationship that failed and she believes each realtionship she could have been in next is compared to a lonely hitchhiker who just wants to find someone to help them, and because of this failed relationship the author is now afraid of commitment. As for the berries, I believe the berries symbolize a form of pain if they are dangerous or just something to look at and admire but never to touch out of fear like a hitchhiker and like a form of commitment
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Yes, this is getting to it. The hitchhikers may, of course, also suggest her own need and feelings of failure, as well...and, yes, whatever caused that relationship to fail, which the speaker blames herself for, and not being able to understand that--the hitchhikers, then, representing the unknown she fears in herself--and not wanting to inflict that on someone else, could be read in the final lines...and the berries are certainly ambiguous, since the suggest both the beauty and pain that is the emotional remnant of that relationship (note the contrasting images of the diamonds and gold). See comments on Diana A's blog, as well, and the exercise on Bb
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