I feel as if all my blog posts have been focusing on the random selections I've made of the poems offered in this book. And yet again, I say to you, I was merely scanning through the book when I found this short and convenient poem "Oh No" on page 515.
Well than, shall we begin to analyze?
Its comparatively short to the previous poems I've spoken about. The first line brought me to a wondrous mentality, and I quote "If you wander far enough you will come to it..". It reminds me of a line of another poem, "All That is Gold Does Not Glitter" written by J. R. R. Tolkein.
And that quote is, "Not all those who wander are lost".
I could be mocking through my perception, but there seems to be more connection than I knew.
ANYWAY....the poem comes off heaven like. As if this were a journey, passing by the act of death and being reborn in heaven, when he states " and when you get there they will have a place for you to sit for yourself only, and in a nice chair.."
Interestingly enough, the analysis given after, on the next page, breaks it down to that same conclusion/perception. And I read that before I could conclude my thoughts. This poem may be short, but there is meaning branching out endlessly through every line, and to me, word. Fascinating how poems alternate and resemble differently, or at least to some, could be.
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