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February 01, 2006
David Lehman's "The World Trade Center"
"The World Trade Center was an example of what was wrong/With American architecture"
These two lines of the poem were very interesting from a sociopolitical point of view. The first line is very long, actually the longest line in the poem. Then it breaks off abruptly, in a totally illiogical place, and leaves you hanging as to what is wrong until the very next line, the shortest line in the poem. The author then tells us that American architecture is apparantly all screwed up. I think that his sudden line break where he leaves us hanging is meant to infer that somethinng else might be wrong and the buildings are merely a symbol of whatever is wrong.
Does that make ANY sense?
Posted by MeganRitter at February 1, 2006 04:50 PM