Poem
While I was doing the poetry responses, I randomly read a few poems in the Literature textbook (I know, how IB). Here's one that I liked.
"A Work of Artifice"
by Marge Piercy (ca. 1973)
The bonsai tree
in the attractive pot
could have grown eighty feet tall
on the side of a mountain
till split by lightning.
But a gardener
carefully pruned it.
It is nine inches high.
Every day as he
whittles back the branches
the gardener croons,
It is your nature
to be small and cozy
domestic and weak;
how lucky, little tree,
to have a pot to grow in.
With living creatures
one must begin very early
to dwarf their growth:
the bound feet,
the crippled brain,
the hair in curlers,
the hands you
love to touch.
Anyone know what the bonsai tree metaphorically represents (WITHOUT looking in the lit book)? It's actually pretty obvious.
I liked it because of the little unexpected twist.
"A Work of Artifice"
by Marge Piercy (ca. 1973)
The bonsai tree
in the attractive pot
could have grown eighty feet tall
on the side of a mountain
till split by lightning.
But a gardener
carefully pruned it.
It is nine inches high.
Every day as he
whittles back the branches
the gardener croons,
It is your nature
to be small and cozy
domestic and weak;
how lucky, little tree,
to have a pot to grow in.
With living creatures
one must begin very early
to dwarf their growth:
the bound feet,
the crippled brain,
the hair in curlers,
the hands you
love to touch.
Anyone know what the bonsai tree metaphorically represents (WITHOUT looking in the lit book)? It's actually pretty obvious.
I liked it because of the little unexpected twist.