First i would like to thank the people that helped me last time. I need help with another poem though. It is called The Tragedy of Leaves.... By Charles Bukowski..
I awakened to dryness and the ferns were dead,
the potted plants yellow as corn;
my woman was gone
and the empty bottles like bled corpses
surrounded me with their uselessness;
the sun was still good, though,
and my landlady's note cracked in fine and
undemanding yellowness; what was needed now
was a good comedian, andcient style, a jester
with jokes upon absurd pain; pain is absurd
because it exists, nothing more;
I shaved carefully with an old razor
the man who had once been young and
said to have genius; but
that's the tragedy of the leaves,
the dead ferns, the dead plants;
and I walked into a dark hall
where the landlady stood
execrating and final,
sending me to hell,
waving her fat, sweaty arms
and screaming
screaming for rent
because the world has failed us
both.
I need to do a three step process about it.... the first step needs to contain its literal meaning.... the second step needs to include the theme.... or metaphoric meaning of the poem...... and the Third step needs to include the meter pattern, the poetic devices such as, metaphors, personification, allusions, allagories, similes, symbols, alliteration, anything of that sort and how it matches the theme...... I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE THE HELP AND YOUR TIME
This must be a class assignment- there's at least one other student talking about 'three step methods.'
Literally-
This guy wakes up- his plants are dead, his room's a mess, his girl has left, and the landlady wants the rent. Sounds like a blues song to me.
Metaphorically- the plants represent life or growing or achieving. (I'm tossing this out off the top of my head here) They were these things but now they're dead. He's comparing himself and his life to the dead plants.
"I shaved carefully with an old razor
the man who had once been young and
said to have genius; but
that's the tragedy of the leaves,"
I'll leave the devices to you.
pam