Karie Lake 11 Feb 2011
Laura Cline
Eng 102
Responding to a Poem
There are two poems that intrigued me. In Joy Harjo’s “The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window.”I think from just the title that she is going to be talking about a woman hanging from a window. The poem starts off with a woman hanging from the thirteenth window and it’s not until the end of the poem that I realized she wasn’t just talking about a woman hanging from a window. The poem has much more meaning than just a woman hanging from a window. “She thinks she will be set free”(Harjo line 7) is where is starting to think more about the woman’s feelings and less about a woman hanging from a window on the thirteenth floor. To me Harjo was talking about this woman’s feelings. “She thinks she remembers listening to her own life break loose, as she falls from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago, or as she climbs back up to claim herself again”(Harjo lines 64-66). This is the last sentence in the poem and it moved me that the whole poem is about a woman that has lost someone and is having a hard time dealing with it. I think that the person she lost was her husband. It’s very and moving. This was a great poem.
“Letter Composed During a Lull in the fighting” by Kevin Powers was also a very moving a well written piece. “I tell her I love her like not killing”(Powers line 1) is the first line and in that line he has said more than I think I was expecting. Going through the poem there are many analogies of love and war. I was moved by this poem, he was writing to the love of his while deployed for war. The last line said more about war than I think a lot of us could put into logical words. “I tell her how Pvt. Bartle says, offhand, that war is just us making little pieces of metal pass through each other”(Powers lines 9-12). This is a poem gives the reader both a feel of war and love and to me it was a great way for Powers to tell his love to his significant other.
Work Cited
Harjo, Joy. “The Woman Hanging From the Thirteenth Floor Window.” Poetry Foundation.2006.11 Feb.2011.Web.
Powers, Kevin C. “Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting.” Poetry Foundation.11 Feb. 2011. Web.
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