r-rite, here it is, just for Shoji- my interp of the Red Fox

k, so i'm sure ur all xpectin it by now, but i have an odd interpretation of the Red Fox.

in "A Modest Proposal" Johnathan Swift creates a very despirate view of the people during the Industrial Revolution. i was reminded of this while reading Margret Atwood's "The Red Fox" in which Atwood communicates the idea of a woman becoming a prostitute to try to feed her children. this idea is communicated through symbolism/metaphor, imagery, and diction.

so you're probably wondering where the prostitute came from. so, we'll start out with diction. first, the phrase "pawning their bodies" screams prostitute. next, "elegant scoundrel" signifies that the idea that the animal (or person) is not necessarily one that everyone approves of, but that they look nice and can be "foxy" (ok, i had to use the pun, deal with it). "eyes filled with longing" tends to have a sexual connotation and when paired with "despiration" we can gain the idea that the woman was trying to lure men to sleep with her so that she can get some kind of income.

symbolism/metaphor is the next major way of gaining this interpretation. (i grouped them cuz they really work as one entity.) the description of the body in the 3rd stanza gives the idea in multiple ways. first is that it gives a physical description that has allusions to the cunning mind and alternative motives of a prostitute. the idea that her skinny feet are adept at lies is like they are good at trickery and can be interpreted as though this woman is really good at making a man think that he wants her. i don't remember whose idea it was, but someone said that the feet were a means to an end, a means to getting where you're going, and that fits here too, the idea that the "street walker" uses her feet as a means to a dishonest end works out very well. the line where the speaker says that the fox could tell if they had "a gun or dog" can be interpreted as the prostitute being able to tell if the person was a cop cuz police carry guns and some have dogs too. the "raw heart" can be interpreted as being able to tell if the client is a virgin cuz a professional can tell when someone has no experience what so ever just like a raw heart is untouched and fresh, like raw meat. the phrase "it's only an excuse for zero charity" communicates the idea that the pracice shouldn't be allowed 2 continue n that it's a way not to help these womyn get themselves out of that life.

finally, the imagery in this poem not only helps gain this interpretation, but also helps can be seen when we look at the idea that the 5th stanza is filled with IR imagery, "hunger corrpupts" "mothers squeezing their breasts" and others give the feeling is the IR.

Through this i get the interpretation that the poem'sa about a prostitute

Lovers on Aran by Seamus Heaney

The timeless waves, bright, sifting, broken glass,
Came dazzling around, into the rocks,
Came glinting, sifting from the Americas

To posess Aran. Or did Aran rush
to throw wide arms of rock around a tide
That yielded with an ebb, with a soft crash?

Did sea define the land or land the sea?
Each drew new meaning from the waves' collision.
Sea broke on land to full identity.


so this his 2 b the shortest poem i've eva read by Heaney, but i really like it

though this is one of Heaney's shortest poems, it is one of his most meaningful and erotic. Heaney cr8s a "hidden message" of sex in his poem, Lovers on Aran though his use of diction, symbolism, and imagery.

the first, and most noticable is the diction. he uses a lot of naudical imagery like waves, rocks, and sea, these have a very calming effect and communicate a very serine feeling about the setting. the idea of the sea also gives us the idea that it is never ending and thus that love is never ending. the words timless, broken glass, dazzing, and sifting have a more corse, feeling to them and they communicate the idea of a harshness. this harshness is extended through the use of the crashing wave words. words like ebb, soft crash, waves' collision, throw, and broke all give us the idea of waves crashing onto the shore which help create the feeling of the deeper meaning offered within this poem.

next is the symbolism and imagery. the symbolism is found within the imagery of this poem. the images of the breaking waves, and the lovers on the beach of Aran cr8 the symbolism of this poem. the continuous image of waves breaking on the beach paired with the talk of possessing the island create the idea that the poem is about sex. dazzling around cr8s the idea of wooing or foreplay. throw wide arms cr8s the image of the lovers falling on2 the beach. the phrases soft crash, waves' collision, and sea broke all give the idea that the lovers are actually having sex. the line saying "did sea define the land or land the sea?" takes this idea further and we get the idea that he's asking the question did the sex begin in the love or did the love begin because of the sex.

these images are unprecedented in the poetry that we've read by Heaney. in his other poems he didn't talk about sex except for the idea that the girls shouldn't have engaged in sex with the british soldier or that there was a bad conntation to adultary. here he speaks about sex as a very passionate act.through these devices, we see that Heaney creates a ver erotic and sexual message about the island of Aran .

Plog Numero 3- BREAK!!!!!! o, i wish it were mine...

ok, so we're all feelin the need for a break, but i highly doubt it's the kinda break Seamous Heaney talks bout in his poem, "Mid-Term Break". in this poem, Heaney creates a somber tone and a "hidden message" (yeah, that's what i wanna call the one u gotta look fer, u got a prob, 2 bad, deal) of the feeling of loss caused by war. He creates this feeling though his use of diction and imagery.

the diction in this piece just kinda smacks u in the face. Heaney uses a lot of emotion words to give the reader the fell of being over run w/emotion like they would b if they were experiencing death in war. the strange mixture of words like laughed and cooed with words like angry and crying. these help 2 give the feel of bein stuck in a war. life goes on while a war is goin n this mix of happy n sad words gives us that feel. additionally, he uses words with a connotation of sickness n/or death like college sick bay or bells. in a college sick bay you are surrounded with sickness all the time and bells are commonly used at church survices and funeral serives in particular.

the other thing that really screams @ u in this poem is the imagery that Heaney uses, specifically the war imagery. the use of things like the ambulemce arrived and the corpse (he uses the corpse rather than my brother or something- all i can pic is Hawkeye talkin bout meatball surgery and none of u actually understood that ref. so w/e but i like it so there it is) and gaudy scars and poppy brusies and stanched and bandaged. these are thins u'd spect 2 hear while talkin 2 a war correspondant and the detached feeling that u get is a feeling u'd get from a bad news anchor. these aren't thins u'd spect 2 hear bout a guy whose little brother just died cuz he was hit by a car. idk, seems odd. it's almost like the little kid was a soldier in the fight that the speaker was talkin bout.

i guess the important thin is that we understand that life isn't somethin that u can sluff through n have it always b ok. that's what Heaney is getting at here, life doesn't always work out the way we spect it 2. sometimes little kids die, sometimes bad stuff happens, sometimes soldiers get killed. the important thin seems to b that they were fightin fer somethin they believed in or that they were playin a game that they liked. (yeah, if ur hearin the sound track in my mind, you're totally hearin John Mayer's Believe rt now...) this is the effect that Heaney achieves in "med-term break" a somber tone and the feeling of loss due 2 war.