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March 16, 2006
Oster's Determination
Oster [On ''Desert Places''] -- Jerz: American Lit II (EL 267)
I agree with Oster in some places. She picks up on key phrases and emphasizes important lines nicely but she is stuck on saying that the speaker is terrified and scared and afraid to be alone. I disagree completely… In the poems last line it even states the opposite on its own.
“The cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars – on stars where no human race is
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.”
The speaker outright says “They cannot scare me…”, I have it in me so much nearer home to scare myself with my own desert places.” The speaker holds his own hell in their soul and no deserted woods will even compare to the loneliness that they contain.
Posted by KayleeNorth at March 16, 2006 12:38 AM