My mouth hovers across your breasts
in the short grey winter afternoon in this bed we are delicate and touch so hot with joy we amaze ourselves tough and delicate we play rings around each other our daytime candle burns with its peculiar light and if the snow begins to fall outside filling the branches and if the night falls without announcement there are the pleasures of winter sudden, wild and delicate your fingers exact my tongue exact at the same moment stopping to laugh at a joke my love hot on your scent on the cusp of winter “My mouth hovers across your breasts” explains the author’s intimate cravings of the woman in bed with her. The author specifically uses hover because she wanted to describe how sexually attracted she was to her. Just as if the moment that she experienced wasn’t so true. The author uses delicate to describe the tantalizing form of expression for her woman. She emphasizes intensity of their bodies connecting as one. Then she refers to “tough and delicate we play rings” to their playfulness as being rough with their movements and then slowly becoming passionate towards one another. The author describes the intimate setting as she lies on top of her significant other in hope of enticing her mentally, physically, and emotionally. The candles burning around the room is symbol of their burning love for one another. The author describes the winter as setting the mood, which confirms the intimate atmosphere. She uses “pleasures of winter sudden, wild and delicate” to explain the actions of her and her lover. The author emphasizes exact to show the precise movement of her tongue on the woman’s body. She concludes with “my love hot on your scent” to show how engaged she is with this woman. The tone throughout this poem reveals an explicit relationship between her and another woman. It creates a deep feeling of intense affection that exhuberates the mood.
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I dreamed I called you on the telephone
to say: Be kinder to yourself but you were sick and would not answer The waste of my love goes on this way trying to save you from yourself I have always wondered about the left-over energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill long after the rains have stopped or the fire you want to go to bed from but cannot leave, burning-down but not burnt-down the red coals more extreme, more curious in their flashing and dying than you wish they were sitting long after midnight Adrienne Rich's poem explains the regretfulness that she has about wasting her time on someone who is lost within theirself. In the beginning of the poem she immediately introduces how she feels about the subject. Apparently, she called someone to tell them to be "kinder to their self" ;however, they were so caught up within their own drama they did not notice. Her tone is fully exemplified when she describes that her love has been wasted. No one wants to feel as if their love is wasted on an unnecessary person. She uses imagery to further elucidate her disappointment in this person. The first image she displays is comparing her wasted energy to the left-over water that runs from down a hill. Of course, water that runs down from a hill after the rain is extraneous. Basically extraneous water after the rain compares to her wasted energy. She feels as if it is unnecessary. Why is it needed? Likewise when fire is burning, when you want to put it out you can not because it goes away on it's own time. "Burning-down but not burnt-down" meaning the fire is excessive and is wasting energy and time. Rich further explains her yearning desire for this significant someone. It seems as if she can not live without him. The feeling that she has takes a toil on her that she becomes annoyed. Lastly, "the red coals more extreme" burn more after it's duty is done. This seems unnecessary to her because if the job is completed why keep going? |
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