Broken & Young at Heart: A Review of 2 Poems

The poems I choose to review are broken and Young at Heart. The first poem "Broken" speaks of a young mother who is having a hard time sustaining her and the children, and so she has to try every means to see that she is not thrown out of his apartment and his children don't sleep hungry. She chooses to dance at a strip club all for the better and livelihood of herself and her children. The speaker in the poem is a young mother who's trying to make ends meet for her children. The second Poem, Young at Heart, speaks of an old granny who is happy of her life and expressing a free will in her old age. The speaker in the poem is a distant admirer observing the old granny. In the third poem Milkweed, the poem is a tale of a butterfly in the stages of metamorphosis and their dependent of flowers for survival. The speaker is a distant admirer who is observing the stages of growth of the butterfly.

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In the first poem, the speaker has clearly illustrated imagery to depict the nature of a strip dancers club, that is, in the lines 16 and 17: "I walk into a large, dim, loud room." "You smell seat, beer, and powder first thing" The two clubs clearly and effectively paint the ideal picture of a strip club to the reader. Large, dim, loud room showing the size and the state of lighting and the loud music that plays all along in a strip club. It is an effective use of imagery because it creates the ideal picture of a strip club to the reader's mind. In the second poem Young at Heart the lines, "She blinks several times and clears her aged old eyes thinking she sees a deer in the river" Depicts the picture to the reader of an aged woman who is having a hard time making a sight out of anything before her. It is an efficient use of imagery to presents to the reader the characterization of an older woman struggling her way through the old age. In the third poem, Milkweed, the line, "so that's what I shall do, fly, fly, fly." Is an effective and powerful use of characterization because the act of flying can be dramatized?

In the three poems, line breaks and stanza breaks are all effectively used to add on to the themes of the lyrics because they provide a precise sequence and flow of events that give the reader a better understanding of the issue and the flow of the poem. Repetition of the words fly 'fly' 'fly' in the poem Milkweed is an active illustrative style because it emphasizes the reader's mind to the act of flight by the butterfly. I feel like the poem Young at Heart misses an imagery depiction of the granny's humor primarily through her voice since she is an old aged woman. What I would remove the line "It's so green and has many leaves" in the poem Milkweed because it is noncontent words and so does not add any relevant picture to the theme of the poem. It is known that butterflies are fond of green and leafy place with flowers, and so I feel like the line does not add content or value to the theme of the poem.