Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Sunday Morning
I thought the first stanza of the poem was one of the best stanzas. The woman in the poem starts out being very content with her situation. Shes happy being dressed down and the chair seems "sunny," which is a word that one wouldn't normally use while describing a chair. However, because she is not in church, everything seems better and "sunny". Church feels imprisoning and she is jealous of the cockatoo and all green things that are free from organized religion and church. But then she realizes that the cockatoo is only distracting her and guilt starts to creep into her consciousness. "Calm darkens" and turns to guilt. It has turned what she thought was good and beautiful before into "a procession of the dead." Her mind is traveling in that direction and there is nothing, as of yet, to prevent it.
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I found your comment really interesting because I had read the "procession of the dead" as the reasoning behind her not going to church as opposed to recognition of guilt. To me the death is a part of the beautiful things she sees in the kitchen. Death’s contrast to life is the very thing that makes life beautiful, mortal. What is bright, what is pungent and alive, is where the woman's focus rests; a great disparity to the dead men of the bible she avoids by staying home and creating her own religious reflection. I saw her reflection as one that focuses on life and earthly pleasure instead of mourning the dead.
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