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Line that I stole: "Yes, we knew each other very well."

From : Looking at Each Other By Muriel Rukeyser

"Yes, we knew each other very well."

But seasons come and seasons go,

and you move here nad I move there.

But with a promise we will never part.

Through this journey we shape into the adults we soon will be.

Learn more than we ever thought possible,

and see more than we thought there was to see.

Face more obstacles on our own

and learn to stand alone.

But seasons come and seasons go,

and soon we meet again to see the adults we have become

and realize.

"Yes, we knew each other very well."

Rock 'Em Out

Looking at Each Other

By Muriel Rukeyser





Yes, we were looking at each other

Yes, we knew each other very well

Yes, we had made love with each other many times

Yes, we had heard music together

Yes, we had gone to the sea together

Yes, we had cooked and eaten together

Yes, we had laughed often day and night

Yes, we fought violence and knew violence

Yes, we hated the inner and outer oppression

Yes, that day we were looking at each other

Yes, we saw the sunlight pouring down

Yes, the corner of the table was between us

Yes, our eyes saw each other's eyes

Yes, our mouths saw each other's mouths

Yes, our breasts saw each other's breasts

Yes, our bodies entire saw each other

Yes, it was beginning in each

Yes, it threw waves across our lives

Yes, the pulses were becoming very strong

Yes, the beating became very delicate

Yes, the calling the arousal

Yes, the arriving the coming

Yes, there it was for both entire

Yes, we were looking at each other

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The song and the poem are alike in more ways than one. Both are some form of a poem because thats what a song is. The poem talks about looking at each other and how open they are to each other. That every single aspect of their lifes is poured out to one another in the form of love. The ideas apply with the song. The song is by the Jonas Brothers titled When You Look Me in the Eyes explains in a unique manner that when we love someone and we look them in the eyes we are open and can not hide anything. When there is nothing to hide you feel a sense of comfort and both the poem and song describe relationships that make you feel confortable because "when you look me in the eyes and tell me that you love me everything is alright".

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Crow is Walking

Crow is walking to see things at ground level,
the ground as new under his feet as the air is old under his wings.
He laves the dead rabbit waiting
it's a given, it'll always be there
and walks down the dirt road,
admires the pebbles, how they sparkle in the sun;
checks out his reflection in a puddle full of sky
which reminds him of where he's supposed to be,
but he's beginning to like the way the muscles move in his legs
and the way his wings feel so comfortable folded back and resting.
He thinks he might be beautiful,
the sun lighting his back with purple and green.
Faint voices from somewhere far ahead roll like dust down the road towards him.
He hurries a little.
His tongue moves in his mouth;
legends of language move in his mind.
His beak opens.
He tries a word.

-- Grace Butcherfrom Poetry , 2000."Vermin"

The line breaks I choose for my poem creates poetic effect by allowing the ideas to continue to flow. Every action I choose to do a line break and every specfic detail I included a line break. The line break shows that each action or detail is important and not just thrown into a poem. It creates meaning because its like giving step by step directions somewhere and each step develops what the poem is trying to convey. In the "Crow is Walking" the poem creates a step by step examination of how the crow lives its everyday life.

SEVENTH AVENUE

This is the cripple’s hour on Seventh Avenue
when they emerge, the two o’clock night-walkers,
the cane, the crutch, and the black suit.
Oblique early mirages send the eyes:
night dramatized in puddles, the animal glare
that makes indignity, makes the brute.
Not enough effort in the sky for morning.
No color, pantomime of blackness, landscape
where the third layer black is always phantom
Here comes the fat man, the attractive dog-chested
legless—and the wounded infirm king
with nobody to use him as a saint.

Now they parade in the dark, the cripples’ hour
to the drugstore, the bar, the newspaper-stand,
past kissing shadows on a window-shade to
colors of alcohol, reflectors, light.
Wishing for trial to prove their innocence
with one straight simple look:

the look to set this avenue in its colors—
two o’clock on a black street instead of
wounds, mysteries, fables, kings
in a kingdom of cripples.


I enjoy this authors writing style because her poems seem to tell stories and are easy to connect to real life events. Her stories are interesting and very detailed. The tone of her poems are always easily identified. For this poem she has a depressed feel for it. It includes dark colors and scary people to form this tone for it. It reminds me of gothic students at RHHS this poem fits them perfect. Any time something is easy to connect to it is easily liked as well. Muriel Rukeyser is just an interesting author of poems because she tells stories and I love reading them. They are easy to read and understand. She doesn't use big words or anything that would ever confuse you.

Waiting for Icarius

He said he would be back and we'd drink wine together

He said that everything would be better than before

He said we were on the edge of a new relation

He said he would never again cringe before his father

He said that he was going to invent full-time

He said he loved me that going into me

He said was going into the world and the sky

He said all the buckles were very firm

He said the wax was the best wax

He said Wait for me here on the beach

He said Just don't cry

I remember the gulls and the wave

sI remember the islands going dark on the sea

I remember the girls laughing

I remember they said he only wanted to get away from me

I remember mother saying: Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot

I remember she told me those who try out inventions are worse

I remember she added: Women who love such are the worst of all

I have been waiting all day, or perhaps longer.

I would have liked to try those wings myself.

It would have been better than this.

This picture up above the poem fits well with the poem and what is discussed in its contents. The figure in the picture has wings and the the main character of the poem talks about how she wishes she would have found her wings. So that she could search for the one she loved instead of just waiting on him because it seemed as if he was never coming back. The figure also looks a little crazy because the women who is waiting on the beach is crazy for doing so. This man is never coming back and it also shows how the other women around her think she is crazy. They are happy and she could be too if she would just leave this man and stop waiting on him.

Looking at Each Other, Muriel Rukeyser

Yes, we were looking at each other
Yes, we knew each other very well
Yes, we had made love with each other many times
Yes, we had heard music together
Yes, we had gone to the sea together
Yes, we had cooked and eaten together
Yes, we had laughed often day and night
Yes, we fought violence and knew violence
Yes, we hated the inner and outer oppression
Yes, that day we were looking at each other
Yes, we saw the sunlight pouring down
Yes, the corner of the table was between us
Yes, our eyes saw each other's eyes
Yes, our mouths saw each other's mouths
Yes, our breasts saw each other's breasts
Yes, our bodies entire saw each other
Yes, it was beginning in each
Yes, it threw waves across our lives
Yes, the pulses were becoming very strong
Yes, the beating became very delicate
Yes, the calling the arousal
Yes, the arriving the coming
Yes, there it was for both entire
Yes, we were looking at each other


The poem "Looking at Each Other" reminds me of my life right now. After reading this poem I realized just a little more how much I care about my boyfriend. This poems descirptions of how she feels with her partner almost make you feel the love that they share. Every aspect that could go on during an close moment between you and your partner is described here.

Muriel Rukeyser goes through every part of the body so that you get a picture in your head and it makes you fall in love with the poem. There is nothing negative in the poem at all. She talks about them fighting but that they knew all about it. Every couple is going to fight sometimes and every couple that is going to last will see a way through it. This poem opens up some real life feelings for me because Rukeyser does a great job with tone and description.