Poems can be interpreted very differently depending on reader’s imagination and understanding. According to David Rosenwasser and Jill Stephen, it is sometimes useful or even essential for readers to look for some words or languages that are repeated in order to understand author’s intention. This analytical paper is going to discuss two poems from “Elsa” and one poem from “Saint X”. In the poems of “Elsa”, the author seems to tell the readers the main character’s unstable mental state or environment in a metaphorical way. A lot of difficult and technical terms are used in these poems and it is clear that those terms have a meaning that relates to the theme of the poem and is not necessarily the same as the one we can see in the dictionary. …show more content…
And the poem goes with several questions and answers. The key point of the first part “why do we yawn?” is the phrase “need to”. This refers to the essence to disclose all strength and weakness of humanity. The last sentence “my field of vision reaches only so far but I think I see you coming to it” emphasizes the vision of human been exposing each other and throwing off reserve. The next part of the poem starts from the phrase “how does gravity work? and ends with “but still”. In this part, the point to be focused is that there is no clear or appropriate answer towards the question. The response to the question “how does gravity work?” doesn’t show the exactly direct answer but suggests what to do to derive the answer. By asking questions, readers and audience can feel that they have more interests in the answer and the theme of the poem. By contrast, in the last part of the poem, there are clear and visible answers and responses towards the question at the first place. The theme of this part could be how to establish an emotional bond with each other in one place. Their communications are expressed by using sound words like “syllables” and “dyad” as a metaphor. They emphasize how the space of each other moves and how they develop their relationship in an indirect way. “She” appears for the first time in this poem and “she” could be the person who “you” give heart to or think