Blog Assignment Feb 19,2012



The two poems that I have chosen for this week is "Variation on the word sleep", by Margaret Atwood and "Hate Poem", by Julie Sheehan. The reason why I choose these poems is because the titles really stood out to me while I was reading out my choices. I really liked "Hate Poem",I liked how it was humorous but also expressed the deep meaning of the authors emotions. There were some lines that I did not understand " A closed window is both a closed window and an obvious symbol of how I hate you"(line 13). I did not understand the significance of the analogy I tried to read over and over again and I could not understand it. The other poem that I have chosen was "Variation on the word sleep". I liked the overall tone of this poem, the tone of this poem was very mellow and soft and not build with strong negative emotions like the other poem. The author uses good word choice to express the significance of the title. These poems are similar because the two authors use similar word structure to describe the purpose based on the title. These poems express different types of relationships but describe them in the same structure,