Flea= love..... Grimm Cinderella... Poems!

      The poem that I found the most difficult was "The Flea", that poem was very confusing for me because I didn't know why he used the flea as a symbol of there love. My major question about the poem is: why did he use a flea to represent his love or their relationship? Because, fleas are very gross and people don't like them, its strange that he would pick a flea to represent something that is suppose to be special. When I first read the poem I thought that someone had died because of the flea almost like the black death but it turns out that the woman in the poem killed the flea. It is kind of funny that I was so off the meaning. After discussing the poem with my class it seemed to make a lot of sense as to why he pick the flea as a symbol because the author John Donne does a really good job with the flea representing their union. Once you understand the basic meaning of the poem it becomes really nice and a bit humorous because the man in the poem is trying so hard to get his lover to sleep with him.  

       The poem that I really liked so far is Cinderella, I thought that it was a really cool version of the story because I never really liked the Disney version which is how all the other versions of Cinderella are based on. It made me want to read the actual story written by the Brother's Grimm, which is where the author got the piece of the story from. Anne Sexton was really trying to make a point in her poem Cinderella that people that go after the things that they want are considered the ugly stepsisters and people that just wait around like Cinderella enjoy all life's rewards. That is what Anne Sexton seemed to be against in her poem because it sounded like she was making fun of the story. I really liked this poem because I really understood the authors point of view and what she was trying to portray with the mini stories in the beginning and the piece of Cinderella from the Brother's Grimm.