Frustration in Poerty!

In class, we are assigned to read Lorine Niedecker's poems in her book called, The Granite Pail. I personally are not very good at breaking down poems. I think it has to do with not being interested in poem's so it is really hard for me to focus. The poem I chose to write about and break down is called, "Watching Dancers on Skates."

The poem is real short and says "Ten thousand women and I the only one In boots, Life's dance: they meet, he holds her leg up." Now that I have actually told you what the poem states I want to let you know that this is not how the poem is laid out on the paper.

Throughout the whole book, Loraine breaks up her sentences in weird ways and overall I think it just makes it even more difficult to read. Seeing as I stated before that poetry is not my thing this just frustrates me even more. Another thing that just makes me so irritated about the poem is that the second part doesn't really fit to me. 'They meet, he holds her leg up."  To me, this is so confusing it makes me want to pull my hair out. One thing I do like with Lorine's poems, is if I understood them I bet they are very creative. Her poem's really make you sit and wonder what she is trying to say.

 Overall, when I broke this poem down, I feel like what she is trying to say is that she feel really out of place. It seems as if she is not as good as all the other dances and gets more opportunity to sit and watch the more talented dancers because she isn't up to their athletic ability.

 Poetry really stresses me out so doing this assignment was very difficult for me and made life stressful for quite sometime. Lorine Niedecker's way of style is a lot different then most poet's which made this even more difficult. Although I do feel if I understood poetry I would like her way of writing a lot.

Caught Between The Two!

After reading "Bros Before Hoe's," and The Guy Code, It reminded me vaguely of my childhood. Growing up with two brothers made me change how a normal girl should act. I often heard my family call me a "tomboy". When I was a little girl, I never new what that word meant but I thought I liked being called it.

I feel my life was always surrounded by the Guy Code so I just adapted to it. When I was little I didn't play with Barbie's or get all dolled up and walk around in dresses. In my childhood there was a lot of bike accidents, Band-Aids covering wounds, playing with Hot Wheels with my brothers, and catching toads. I never was the one to want to play with the Barbie's and get all cute.

This reminds me a lot of the articles I read in Composition I class. A lot of times when I would fall and scrape my knees my brothers would always make remarks like, "Get up, you're acting like a little girl!" I always tried to be just like them and they made me the strong person I am today.

Being little and not having any sense of direction, I also wanted to dress like my brothers. My mom would get really frustrated at times because I never wanted to dress like a "lady". With being brought up with two brother it was really hard to be a girl. My mom always told me how to act and would sometimes scold me for not being lady like, but I never really had a grasp on the whole Girl Code.

Being able to read these articles made me really think back on my childhood and show me how much The Guy code influenced my life. I never really thought of me being so influenced on the Guy Code until being educated on it.

Eventually, I grew out of The Guy code. I started going to school and seeing all these little girls dressing up in dresses and were very polite and quiet. I then transitioned very naturally into a girl and have never once thought about trying to act like a boy.

Is the Guy Code so powerful that influenced my life? What else can the Guy/Girl code influence? Does the Guy Code have more power than the Girl Code??