Gravity edit1

[brynmawr1]

Gravity

Gravity weighs on her.
 “Only a theory,” She thinks.
 
Struggling to get above ground,
it pulls her down.
 
To the center of herself,
the places she doesn’t want to know.
 
“Ignorance is bliss,” she thinks.
Gravity never let her go.



My wife doesn't like the cliche of "ignorance is bliss" but I think it works here.  What do you all think?

I struggle to follow the argument here.
If she thinks that gravity is only a theory, then she won’t think that ignorance is bliss because in doing that she is admitting to herself that thinking gravity to be ONLY a theory (and ignoring for now the implication that theories don’t somehow work to get rockets up and apples down). It is an unwarranted self awareness that here is illogical rather than ironic.

While gravity, which catches up with us all, has a vast number of metaphorical associations, none of tj are relevant if the central conceit of the poem is flawed.

Hi Busker,

The "only a theory" phrase has two aspects here.  The first is trivial and that is there is a "Theory of Gravity" in physics so it a bit of a play on that. Second, in this situation she is using it dismissively, refusing to accept the reality of her situation.  So rather than being self aware, she is choosing to turn away.  Which is also the central conceit of the second phrase, that she would rather not know or confront whatever it is that is weighing on her. Anyway, that is what the poem means to me. Thanks for taking the time to read and post.