Warning-sexual themes(don't blame me blame the book)
*for those of you who aren't familiar with this style (and are too lazy to google it like I did) "Found poetry is a type of poetry created by taking words, phrases, and sometimes whole passages from other sources and reframing them as poetry by making changes in spacing and lines, or by adding or deleting text, thus imparting new meaning." Bam , now you know*
:The Thinly Veiled Hidden Perversion Of "Great American Literature":
A Found Poem
Her voice fuller, unusually womanly.
She feigned interest.
"Oh, yes!"
By the pull of his courage she felt
transformed with their hands clasped.
He nodded.
Silently obeying she leaned down on her knees.
Her face flushed crimson instinctively.
In that moment he needn't anything of her.
She seemed to feel a sudden twinge of fire underneath.
His hands rubbed persuasively against her.
Her lids downcast. He sprung up.
"You're greedy..."
Her tone with necessary authority.
He felt the suffocating pull of himself on the brink.
And so he came, smiling to her.
Her laughter soft...bright.
It wore off.
They keep quiet. What shall they do?
"Why?"
It Sounds Like A Personal Problem
Ethan Frome is a personal tragedy because of his overwhelming pent up sexual frustration ,which in turn clouds his better judgment and causes immense amounts of personal confusion. In addition to inner turmoil of a conflict of the ethos ,pathos and logos nature within his own mind. "When the door of her room had closed on her he remembered that he had not even touched her hand. (Wharton page 85)" . In laymen terms the man needs to get laid.
It seems a simple notion. This book in it's entirety is about cheating,not necessarily of the sexual kind. This level of cheating is so far gone he is cheating mentally and emotionally. "The fact that he had no right to show his feelings, and thus provoke the expression of hers, made him attach a fantastic importance to every change in her look and tone (Wharton page 27)" He doesn't even grant himself the pleasure of recognizing his own emotions as if they might somehow confirm them. Ethan is cheating himself,
by starving himself of his own sense of happiness. Never having truly chased his dreams he has bound himself to his shack of a home.The most unfortunate of cases is that this young man had an out. Though it may be misconstrued to call it an opportunity his time in Florida allowed him a chance at freedom which he willingly renounced.
One could argue that it was society's moral impositions and the obligatory call to follow social construct is what makes this man tragic. However ,is the choice to follow such crowds (let alone fear their opinions) not a personal issue? The human psyche shouldn't be denied its fundamental basics. Which include (according to Freud and many other prominent psychologists throughout history ) is sexual discovery, desire and fulfillment.
The human body secretes hormones specifically designed to urge forward the evolutionary duty of reproduction. (Psych AP book)
Frome is clearly unsatisfied with his marriage both emotionally and physically. This is not simply because his wife is sick, but her personality manages to be both foul and overbearing regardless of her psychosomatic faux-esque ailments. You can blame his wife for his tragedy too. Sure, why not? After All,...his self-made stigma of feeling obligated to everyone is his own doing.
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That's Right, I Wrote It For A Class!
De TodoAt some point you come across some school work you were actually proud of...well I wrote it, so I might as well publish it right?
