Thursday, May 13, 2010

EMpty Space by Waldman

This poem resembled to me the gods creation of the world. It also felt like she was describing a poet writing a poem, a painter painting a picture. There was a sense of freedom there, individual freedom to do as you wish. She starts the poem with puting makeup on empty space, Beautifying the empty space, putting the meanings on the empty space and filling the empty space with whatever she wants to fill it with. EMpty space could be the world in which we live in, it could also be our lives as humans, we do things that give our life a meaning, and in the poem the author puts meanings on the empty space by adding new things to it. "TUrn yourself inside out and you might disappear" regarding the empty space got me a bit confused... DOes she mean that we are empty inside or perhaps all the same and the way we stand out from one another is by all the things that make us different from the outside, makeup, different hair color...but in the insidie we all have same things in common, same emotions, sad angry happy, frustrated and that if we turn ourselves inside out we will blend right in with the empty space that we will become invisible inside that empty space. Not sure which interpretation would be the most appropriate one yet.