The Day
BY GEOFFREY BROCK
It hangs on its
stem like a plum
at the edge of a
darkening thicket.
It’s swelling and
blushing and ripe
and I reach out a
hand to pick it
but flesh moves
slow through time
and evening
comes on fast
and just when I
think my fingers
might seize that
sweetness at last
the gentlest of
breezes rises
and the plum lets
go of the stem.
And now it’s my
fingers ripening
and evening that’s
reaching for them.
I feel that the speaker in the poem is a man speaking for the symbolism of the plum. I feel that the occasion is a normal day going through the ups and downs of life. When I read this poem, I pictured a blooming spring day. I believe that the setting is a wide, open field with untrimmed grass and fruit trees. In this poem, there is a lesson. It is teaching you that there are sweet and sour times in life and whatever you must work through, just try your best and it will come out as success in the end. I find that the themes in the poem is a normal day, normalcy, and ordinary. The poem portrays a day quickly passing. When you read this poem many feelings are seen, the tone is mixed. I have realized that the plum and the man are feeling different emotions at each moment. For example, when the plum is tamed after the man takes the first bite, the man feels happy while the plum is sad because it is no longer free.
BY GEOFFREY BROCK
It hangs on its
stem like a plum
at the edge of a
darkening thicket.
It’s swelling and
blushing and ripe
and I reach out a
hand to pick it
but flesh moves
slow through time
and evening
comes on fast
and just when I
think my fingers
might seize that
sweetness at last
the gentlest of
breezes rises
and the plum lets
go of the stem.
And now it’s my
fingers ripening
and evening that’s
reaching for them.
I feel that the speaker in the poem is a man speaking for the symbolism of the plum. I feel that the occasion is a normal day going through the ups and downs of life. When I read this poem, I pictured a blooming spring day. I believe that the setting is a wide, open field with untrimmed grass and fruit trees. In this poem, there is a lesson. It is teaching you that there are sweet and sour times in life and whatever you must work through, just try your best and it will come out as success in the end. I find that the themes in the poem is a normal day, normalcy, and ordinary. The poem portrays a day quickly passing. When you read this poem many feelings are seen, the tone is mixed. I have realized that the plum and the man are feeling different emotions at each moment. For example, when the plum is tamed after the man takes the first bite, the man feels happy while the plum is sad because it is no longer free.