Review for Anna:

My Giant

This poem made me sad, but in a positive way. The process of aging is a good subject i think, because it is something everyone will experience, no matter how hard people try to avoid it in this day and age. You describe the father of your past and the father of your present very well. "My dad, once young, strong, intimidating." and "body weighted with age and disease" these are both strong images. I like that you used Pandy, the dog, to sort of symbolize a strength that will never age. Never die.

Songs from the South

With this poem i can close my eyes and picture this perfectly. "The smell on summer breezes" "Yellow and black bees and butterflies" "billowy white clouds..." These are all images that evoke the south in ones mind. It makes you almost forgot you are grown up, and i find myself reverting back to my childhood. My mother is from North Carolina, and i would spend summers there so perhaps this poem speaks to me from experience. I really enjoyed this one.