It is with this verse paragraph that the title, “Bonsai,” becomes clear: the speaker needs to contain her emotions in a way similar to the horticulturist who contains the tree that becomes a dwarf of itself.įourth Verse Paragraph: “Till seashells are broken pieces” In the third verse paragraph, the reader learns that the speaker likes to fold things up because she wants “To scale all love down / To a cupped hand's size.” She called her “folding” up of things she loves an act of “sublimation.” She has the need to purify and control her own emotions. Third Verse Paragraph: “It's utter sublimation” Why the emphasis on shrinking things? Why the necessity of folding a hording in small places? At this point, the reader is intrigued by such a claim. Then the speaker lists a few things that represent “Something that folds and keeps easy”: “Son's note or Dad's one gaudy tie, / A roto picture of a queen, / A blue Indian shawl, even / A money bill.” These are some of the things that speaker claims she folds up and keep in a box, a hollow post, or her shoe. Interestingly, the speaker anticipates being questioned about her statement, “All that I love.” So she makes a little pretense at answering the question, resulting in a flip-flop she says she keeps those little items that she loves in these unusual places only “for the moment.” No, not only for the moment, but “for all time.” No, not just for all time but “for the moment” and “for all time.”
Second Verse Paragraph: “All that I love?” In the first verse paragraph, the speaker claims enigmatically that she folds up everything she loves and places it “in a box / Or a slit in a hollow post / Or in my shoe.” At first, the speaker’s claims seem a little silly placing a little note that you love all folded up into a “hollow post” does not resonate, especially when in the next line she claims she might also place the item in her shoe. The poem dramatizes the speaker's method of controlling emotions.
Tiempo's poem, "Bonsai," consists of four verse paragraphs the lines are short and unrimed. You read, assimilate and understand and prepare for the major quiz and major exam :)Įdith L. Instead of scheduling a make up class due to the class disruptions brought about by extra curricular activities such as the HRM event (SCOR-4H5?), Outreach activities(1POL), parties, etc, it would now be our responsibility to catch up (especially those clases affected.) I post the texts, my researches, old lectures and readings.
Like I said, some selections that should have been taken up in our last few meetings should just be taken up in brief. I post here Edith Tiempo's poem immediately followed by Linda Sue Grime's reading of it. Love thrives on the fight to be close but when the two lovers have achieved this closeness, the fight can turn towards the opposite direction. Ironically, an abundance of contact, that destroys this preconceived images, can hamper the love based on these images. Love sometimes thrives more in distance, rather than in closeness- in projections, fantasies, images produced by the mind to make up for the lack of contact.
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