Position By Carol Berge
"Position" was written in 1964 and was one of the few poems that jumped out at me. Position can be inspiration to all of us but I feel as though it is more or less about the long road to find the love of your life. Carol Berge`, the author of "Position" was born in 1928 and was divorced after the birth of her son. Berge's poetry focuses on self-respect and people seeking love such as in this poem. I believe the past is hard for everyone to deal with; when past experiences are bad experiences we tend to carry along the baggage and try to protect ourselves from making the same mistake. Unfortunately, we close ourselves off, not allowing us to succeed and create a good memory to overturn the bad. A fear of pain is almost more dangerous than pain itself. The poem uses generally known vocabulary making it easy to read and easy to understand yet it has no stress pattern. She makes use of figurative language by utilizing metaphors, symbols, and consonance. She speaks of a mother who "whipped the spirit out of her son", symbolizes herself as
. . .
Some common words found in the essay are:
Carol Berge`, , passing judgment, unless consider/ stand, chance got/ unless, girl didn't, got/ unless consider/, ourselves love, unless consider/, consider/ stand, bad experiences, chance got/, heart broken, past experiences, judgment judge,
Approximate Word count = 711
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
|
