04-29-2014, 06:17 PM
(09-14-2013, 01:21 AM)shenaz Wrote: Two eggs in the potClean, clear, and with the right mindset, hot: if your intent was to show the pleasures of sex, your poem's spot on! It's quick and light, the perfect qualities of a humping-poem: become too heavy and it'll start to sicken; but at the same time, it bears much fruit, as in its simplicity it achieves a quality of ubiquity.
Two nice round eggs
The water is hot and the heat is on
We splutter and curdle
Two round eggs
In the heat of the moment
A question, though, on the aforementioned qualities of the poem: did the speaker, through imbuing these traits into the poem, imply that they were the characteristics of sex that she or he thinks are most pleasurable? And on a rather unrelated note, what exactly did inspire into you the imagery of eggs? The imagery, by the way, is another brilliant thing about this poem: it adds another layer of meaning. I personally interpreted the eggs as symbols of fertility, that the speaker, in his/her pssion, forgot not the true purpose of sex, or saw himself/herself as, at his/her core, the very image of sex; however, Mopkins's interpretation, that this could be pertaining to a lesbian relationship, is I think a much better interpretation: anyway, this once again shows how good the poem's simplicity is!

