Cataract Operation
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The title refers to the removal of a dull film from the eyes. This is
a poem about sight and awareness.
Structure
Another poem of twenty lines, being made up of ten couplets. Again the
poet plays with rhyme as in the pun "hens" and "lens".
Language
The poem is rife with cliché, metaphor and puns. The poem starts with
a very distinctive simile:
"The sun comes like a head
through last night's turtleneck."
This not only gives the reader a comical image of the sun coming up
but links this time of day with waking up and hurrying to dress up in
yesterday's clothes. By changing everyday ordinary things into
extraordinary images, the poet creates a vivid picture and a sense of
movement. He does this through his choice of words, his use of
colloquial expressions and his use of metaphor. Notice how he
describes the pigeon. The expression "turns tail" is particularly
effective because it suggests that the pigeon is turning and "taking
flight", all in one quick movement. Comparing the tail to a magician
fanning out a pack of cards also works well because it expresses the
magic of a brief moment when the pigeon opens out its tail feathers.
The theatrical metaphor is continued with "a pantomime of damp,
forgotten washing" which now plays out the entertainment, where these
ordinary things are transformed. So, as the wind stirs the washing,
the poet imagines a bull fight enacted with the crimson towel, a
can-can danced by the fluttering ra-ra skirt, the mischievous
behaviour of the shirt, which flaps animatedly in the wind pegged only
by its sleeve, waving of a handkerchief like an informal goodbye, and
imagines a parade of hens are a company of soldiers strutting round
the courtyard. Parts of the pictures are real and some are imagined.
The poem can be compared to a magic eye picture. If it is studied for
long enough, the picture changes and hidden images emerge.
Images: Did the poet create strong images? What could you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel?
Imagery uses five senses such as visual, sound, olfactory, taste and tactile to create a sense of picture in the readers’ mind. In this poem, the speaker uses visual imagination when he wrote, “I took my time in old darkness,” making the reader visualize the past memory of the speaker in “old darkness.” The speaker tries to show the time period he chose to write the poem. The speaker is trying to illustrate one of the imagery tools, which can be used to write a poem and tries to suggest one time period which can be used to write a poem. Imagery becomes important for the reader to imagine the same picture the speaker is trying to convey. Imagery should be speculated too when writing a poem to express the big
To conclude these two poems are distinctly different in the message they relay. “The Eye” reveals the raw emotion of a child when faced with cruelty within the family unit. Olds has a unique ability to reveal these emotions with the sense to keep the descriptions brief and stark for the greatest impact.
The poem starts out with a mirror being personified “I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. / Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. / Just as it is unmisted by love or dislike.” The mirror changes itself based upon what it sees regardless of what it is. Ironically the same can be said about humans that their environments also change them. Humans reflect diet through physique, smoking through tarred lungs, or self-esteem from social ranking. The poem then says, “It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long / I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers.” This poem is reflecting patterns of which emotional states also transform the person. When a man spends enough time in a given area, he or she develops an emotional attachment to it. Another transformation “Now I am a lake.” This direct shift from a mirror that gives an exact copy transforms into a lake in which gives a reflection that’s murky and hard to make out. It goes on “A woman bends over me, / Searching my reaches for what she really is. / Then turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.” This section calls into question the objectivity of the previous reflections. The mirror that is now transformed into the lake and is suspicious to those that give light, which also reveals the actual object. It also could reflect that mirror is only as accurate as the observer and perception distort reality. A
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