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Help needed
Im in need of help, i need to analyze this poem
Station
We are saying goodbye
on the platform. in silence
the huge train waits, crowding the station
with aftermath and longing
and all we've never said
to one another. he
shoulders his black bag and shifts
from foot to foot, restless to be off, his eyes
wandering over tinted windows where he'll sit
staring out at the Hudson's platinum dazzle
I want to tell him he's entering into the light
of the world, but it feels like a long tunnel
as he leaves, one home, one parent
for a nother
and we both know it wont ever be the same again
what is the air at, heaping between us, then thinning to nothing?
or those slategrey birds that croon to themselves in an iron angle, then take flight, inscribing huge loops of effortless grace between this station of shade and the shining water.
when our cheeks rest glancing against each other
i can feel mine scratchy with beard and stubble, his
not quite smooth as a girl's, harder, a faint fuzz
starting- those silken beginnings i can see
when the light is right, his next life
in bright first touches. what ails our heart? mine
aching in vain for the words
to make sense of our life together, his
fluttering in dread
of my finding the words, feathered syllables
fidgetiing in his throat
In a sudden rush of bodies and announcements out of the air, he says
he's got to be going, one quick touch
and he's gone. in a minute
the train -ghostly faces behind smoked glass-
groans away on wheels and shackles, a slow glide
i walk beside, waving at what i can see no longer. later, on his own in the city,
he'll enter the underground and cross the river, going home to his mother's house. imagine that white face carried along in the dark glass, shining thorough shadows that fill the window and fall away again
before we're even able to name them
Here are the questions:
1. In paragraph form and with references to the poem, discuss the poet's use of contrast between light and dark to illustrate the father's mixed feelings..
2. in paragraph and with reference to the poem, explain what the train symbolizes
Well i really do need help, so please can you help me?
If you were to write this on the other hand, how would you right it so that it has pizzaz and so that it is concise?
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