Monday, May 4, 2009

Realizations on "The Breezeway"

So I gave that poem to my English teacher to look over and then discuss with me, and he came up with some pretty profound insights. We first went over the title of the piece itself, The Breezeway. We talked about what a breezeway actually was at first, how it is just like a hallway that allows the passage of the breeze between bulidings and such. We then however, began to take into consideration the title in relation to the poem. The poem he said, was like that of a love poem, which in a sense it was a little bit, but at the end, it turned into something a little more complicated. The verse, "It dawns on me that I will never be alone, that people such as he will always be there to see me through all times" seemed to him having more of a temporary feel to it. As if right now it's this boy, but there will always be others to take his place. And at this point, the title comes into play. The breezeway allows the breeze to come and go, never stopping or waiting, constantly passing by. In relating that to the poem, it would be saying something to the effect that boys come into my life and then leave with the wind and I assume that another one will just blow in, and so the cycle would continue. Was this poem about just another lover? Keep in mind, this is all speculation, and by no means did I intend the interpreted ideas to be reached, but it is definitely food for thought. Is some of it true?

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