Sleep, tiredness, strechmarks, gas, bull and congrats are all the things we go through.
Mothers’ happy but the age makes her upset, but we still hope that someday it will be a better day.
Worrying about what will happen and if everything will be o.k.
Planning for the future and praying that there will be someone there to help.
We are the only ones who see the good side of creating a new life.
I will make a better life for my son. There will be nothing he can’t have.
I will make myself finish school and still be there for him.
I will make a career and still follow my dreams, even though I have a son.
I will make a home for him and our future will be bright.
That is what I will make….
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
"The Whipping"
“The old woman across the way is whipping the boy again”. Have you ever said this to yourself when you hear the screams and cries of a young child getting their punishment? Robert Hayden will have you take a second look with this excruciating poem, “The Whipping”. Punishment and pain that a young boy goes through. Connections in the poem seem strange until you look at it in another state of mind. Narrator Robert Hayden experiences pain from the past thoughts and will have you think is that really what that young boy deserved.
First reason why I loved this poem is the powerful punishment that the young boy undergoes. According to the poem, “she strikes and strikes the shrilly circling boy till the stick breaks”. Which means that the old woman puts terror in the young boy by putting a stick to his skin. Wrongful doing does not occur on the boy side beats the young boy through a state of pain. The old woman experienced, “_exhausted, purged”, pain that showed she was passionate about the topic.
Another reason this poem caught my attention are the connections that questioned my reading. Narrator Robert understands and has many to do with this poem. He brought up, “Words could bring, the face that I no longer knew or loved”; which meant to me that he too was touched by the poem. The boy does not necessarily say that he is related to the old woman but by the looks of it, the way he treated the boy it showed love.
Last reason why this poem has touched me is because the personal affect on the characters and myself. “My head gripped in bony vise of knees, the writhing struggle to wrench free, the blows, the fear worse than blows that hateful”. This quote from the poem shows that the narrator felt somewhat of the same pain the boy was feeling; there is a possibly that the narrator also experienced beatings as a child. Personal feelings that I had were pain, sadness, and fear that I once experienced when I seen a period in my life like this. Once I saw a woman beating her child in the supermarket because he was crying too loud. This poem brought me back to this scene, and it also brought the narrator back to a certain part of his life.
In conclusion, “The Whipping” was very painful, and full of violence that got my attention. Punishment and questions were the main reasons why I continued to read this poem. Rhyme and the way I felt personal connection also consumed me. Robert Hayden is a truly powerful poet, I am happy I read this poem and I recommend everyone to read this. Especially if you have ever been whipped.
First reason why I loved this poem is the powerful punishment that the young boy undergoes. According to the poem, “she strikes and strikes the shrilly circling boy till the stick breaks”. Which means that the old woman puts terror in the young boy by putting a stick to his skin. Wrongful doing does not occur on the boy side beats the young boy through a state of pain. The old woman experienced, “_exhausted, purged”, pain that showed she was passionate about the topic.
Another reason this poem caught my attention are the connections that questioned my reading. Narrator Robert understands and has many to do with this poem. He brought up, “Words could bring, the face that I no longer knew or loved”; which meant to me that he too was touched by the poem. The boy does not necessarily say that he is related to the old woman but by the looks of it, the way he treated the boy it showed love.
Last reason why this poem has touched me is because the personal affect on the characters and myself. “My head gripped in bony vise of knees, the writhing struggle to wrench free, the blows, the fear worse than blows that hateful”. This quote from the poem shows that the narrator felt somewhat of the same pain the boy was feeling; there is a possibly that the narrator also experienced beatings as a child. Personal feelings that I had were pain, sadness, and fear that I once experienced when I seen a period in my life like this. Once I saw a woman beating her child in the supermarket because he was crying too loud. This poem brought me back to this scene, and it also brought the narrator back to a certain part of his life.
In conclusion, “The Whipping” was very painful, and full of violence that got my attention. Punishment and questions were the main reasons why I continued to read this poem. Rhyme and the way I felt personal connection also consumed me. Robert Hayden is a truly powerful poet, I am happy I read this poem and I recommend everyone to read this. Especially if you have ever been whipped.
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