Ode To Browsing

As I read the poem “Ode to Browsing the Web”, I visualize a man who feels like his life is bound in chains and completely trapped within the internet. He spends his time continually browsing the web and watching one video after another. He stated that “today I think I practice the religion of blinking too much” (Wicker, 2013). I understand this to mean that he wants to stop and end this madness, but there is no end at sight. I believe that he sees the internet as a lonely journey through his daily life. In the poem “Traveling through the Dark”, I picture a man traveling at night on a narrow road. He approaches a dead deer and gets out of his car to investigate further. His first instinct is “to roll them into the canyon” (Stafford, 1998). He knows that the road is too narrow for both the dead deer and a passing car. The deer is already dead and he wants to prevent any further deaths. He notices that the deer was pregnant, so he thinks deep on his next course of action. He knows the baby is alive, but he does not know when it was expected to be born or if it was injured. He realized that there was nothing that he could about the

In the beginning of the poem, I believe the individual may have wronged someone, and eventually reached the realization that he or she should face his or her problems. I feel that the author is explaining that life goes on even though everyone has problems. The following passage, “Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes”, leads me to believe that there is reviving hope for those who head home (Oliver, 1945). Since the author mentions wild geese and not a single goose heading home, this lets me know that the individual does not have to be lonely and face his or her problems alone, while heading home to the family that he or she belongs