Post for Monday at 5:00 p.m. on Nye's poetry

Please select ONE of the prompts below and comment on it thoughtfully and mindfully.

1.On pages 36-37 of the text you will find the poem from which the book's title is culled. Kindly interpret the final three lines in the context of the poem, and, therefore, from their speaker's perspective; what do the lines mean literally? What is the speaker saying?
After doing this, please write another reading of the final three lines in terms of the poem's narrator. What could and do these lines mean to the narrator of the poem, given the rest of the poem and what you learn about the narrator? Finally, think about these final three lines in terms of the poet, given that she used words from these lines to title her book.
Why is the book titled Words Under the Words? How does this title work (or not work for this text)? How does this title illuminate other topics we have discussed in this course?

2. What do you learn about this Palestinian-American poet from reading this text? How is this work relevant to the issues of our class? Cite evidence from the poems for your answer.