Poetry Response.

Like most poems in this set of poems, this one was sort of weird, only once you’ve reached the ending. I think the poet is saying that if he didn’t speak for a year, had no one to impress or no words to confuse himself or say lies, would he begin to get well? It makes me think of what we talked about for the Heart of Darkness. “the human condition.” Would he get well? I don’t think it is a matter of sickness. Here the poet is AGAIN analyzing himself in a small dark room by himself. “performing brain surgery on himself,” he says. Small dark rooms alone is place with heavy thought. Where he is forced to look at himself. It is interesting how he says that all the floors and the ceilings like are all like mirrors. It gives us this image of where he is seriously looking at himself, all around, raising the question, who am i? and he says, what a mess. Right after this part is where I get lost. Where the question is raised why? And he sits together ith the mountain li po? Huh? i know that he is in deep thought – and now is he brining in unity with nature? This is now the “beginning again.” Where after he looks at himself, he has an epiphany, and he “begins again” – one with nature. I don’t know. It is hard to understand right at the end. It is like some Chinese poem or something.