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.