06-20-2014, 07:49 AM
Christophersea,
On the plot:
The literal interpretation is a bird (remember that kite meant bird of prey before it meant flying paper sail) is guided by its master into a thorn bush. It can't fly, but it claws its way to its master's door, but upon arriving, the door is closed in its face.
The symbolism is that a same-sex partner has been infected with AIDS and is rebuffed when he shows up sick to demand a confession/apology from the man who gave it to him. The pronoun switches from it to his to your are meant to distance the speaker from the subject in an unethical way.
BUT it's not important that the reader takes away that specific narrative. The abstracted story is simple: a creature is wounded bc of another, it struggles to regain proximity to that other, and then is shut out.
The "Stringy" of the title has a dual meaning. It references a stringy animal, which is an animal w no fat on it, and also it foreshadows the "tie" between speaker and subject.
Is that a ‘jagged’ rose? (a typo?)
--Not a typo, but it sucks, and I'll change it
Regarding: The sun. The blowing leaf. The preening light. It may be better to use commas here than periods you chose.
--did you notice the rhyme scheme variant? It's abbaabbb instead of abbaabba. The abrupt sentences, as well as the extra b-rhyme, are meant to convey distraction
Do you mean ‘restlessly’? (a typo?)
--"nestlessly" helps define the "kite" as a bird, but also it describes a creature without a home
In stanza 2, who is the ‘he,’ one of the mountain climbers/sleepers?
Who is the you in ‘your’, a new character, the audience of your narrator?
It's the audience of the narrator. The narrator is throwing the wounded creature at the reader, disowning it.
What is Y Y, how should we read it, why why?
It's an animal sound that suggests "why? Why?" I wasn't sure if it'd work, and it seems like it didn't.
That is all for now.
Chris
----just realized I didn't make it through all your questions and gave a couple crummy answers. I'll repair that.
On the plot:
The literal interpretation is a bird (remember that kite meant bird of prey before it meant flying paper sail) is guided by its master into a thorn bush. It can't fly, but it claws its way to its master's door, but upon arriving, the door is closed in its face.
The symbolism is that a same-sex partner has been infected with AIDS and is rebuffed when he shows up sick to demand a confession/apology from the man who gave it to him. The pronoun switches from it to his to your are meant to distance the speaker from the subject in an unethical way.
BUT it's not important that the reader takes away that specific narrative. The abstracted story is simple: a creature is wounded bc of another, it struggles to regain proximity to that other, and then is shut out.
The "Stringy" of the title has a dual meaning. It references a stringy animal, which is an animal w no fat on it, and also it foreshadows the "tie" between speaker and subject.
Is that a ‘jagged’ rose? (a typo?)
--Not a typo, but it sucks, and I'll change it
Regarding: The sun. The blowing leaf. The preening light. It may be better to use commas here than periods you chose.
--did you notice the rhyme scheme variant? It's abbaabbb instead of abbaabba. The abrupt sentences, as well as the extra b-rhyme, are meant to convey distraction
Do you mean ‘restlessly’? (a typo?)
--"nestlessly" helps define the "kite" as a bird, but also it describes a creature without a home
In stanza 2, who is the ‘he,’ one of the mountain climbers/sleepers?
Who is the you in ‘your’, a new character, the audience of your narrator?
It's the audience of the narrator. The narrator is throwing the wounded creature at the reader, disowning it.
What is Y Y, how should we read it, why why?
It's an animal sound that suggests "why? Why?" I wasn't sure if it'd work, and it seems like it didn't.
That is all for now.
Chris----just realized I didn't make it through all your questions and gave a couple crummy answers. I'll repair that.