Wedding Ring

The poem "Wedding-Ring" by Denise Levertov is basically Denise's view on her wedding ring. This simple small keepsake is filled with happiness, sadness, and many many memories. Just from the beginning you can tell whoever she married was not the greatest idea. She is unhappy with how the marriage turned out because she doesn't want to wear her ring and compares it to, "lies among keys to abandoned houses, nails waiting to be needed and hammered into some wall, telephone numbers with no names attached, idle paperclips". Yet even though she can't stand the ring she won't part with it because it's bad luck to sell or give away a wedding ring. All she believes is this ring is filled with memories and promises from her husband and apparently she is not completely thrilled by this marriage and the promises were broken and it could've possibly ended in divorce. She closes saying all she wants is a friendship, and someone she can always rely on and to be able to trust what they say and promise.

SEX WITHOUT LOVE

This poem was very interesting and can really get a person thinking. Day after day millions of people have sex without love or any type of affection and don't care. The poem starts off describing what both intimate people look like as they have having sex; "Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice" could refer to the body movement, "fingers hooked
inside each other's bodies" could be interpreted as the tenseness and enjoyment of these actions, "faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth whose mothers are going to give them away' could be explaining the ending as both people are out of breath and sweaty. Then I thought it was interesting when the author compared sex without love to a person who goes to church yet doesn't worship god, its just wrong and sinful. She then closes describing a runner that runs just because they can and they enjoy it because people have random sex without love because of the same reasons, there's nothing stopping them from enjoying themselves with the company of others.

The Red Wheelbarrow

Even though "The Red Wheelbarrow" looks like a short and simple poem it really is the complete opposite. With the 4 lines of almost nothingness William Carlos Williams has a bunch of secret hidden meanings behind each word. Behind these few words a setting is created with a red wheelbarrow that is wet from the rain and is placed next to chickens. As you read deeper the wheelbarrow isn't just a helpful tool to the owner but it might also be a shelter for the chickens and whatever else the first line can mean, what exactly depends so much on this one wheelbarrow inparticular? How much did it rain and how long ago since its still wet from the storm? Why are the chickens next to it, does it survive a special purpose to them? These and more questions can be created just by reading four lines, as the last word of each line is emphasized with importance of some sort. I really enjoy the type of writing this poet does, always having the reader wanting more and questioning everything.

THE FISH

After reading "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop a person can learn to respect the life of a simple creature. The author compares this poor innocent fish that has been caught by a fisher to an old aging wise man; "Like medals with their ribbons frayed and wavering, a five-haired beard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw." As the fisher is just standing there staring at the poor animal dangling from the line they realize by the look in the fishes eyes and the detail in the skin that the fish is still a part of the earth and has a right to live; as explained in "While his gills were breathing in the terrible oxygen — the frightening gills, fresh and crisp with blood"; so the fisher lets the fish go free and finish his journey in the sea.