Sunday, October 4, 2009

Kenneth's Critique of The Commons by Joann

The Commons drew me into to it. I looked for the subject in relation to the title. I read it over ward several times. Each time I found that it could be read a different way, yet still retained the same meaning. Each line is a whole thought, but not in sentence form. Therefore, I found that one line does not perpetuate the other. That was very different for me. And the way it is written had me ask many questions. Why call it The Commons? What does “The dark silence,
through the thin curtains, yet for only a moment” mean? Because most of the poem is written in fragments, it does not contain verb tense that would direct attention to the author’s intended meaning. I am curious as to what the subject is; nevertheless, this poem is interesting.

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