The Black Art: a critique

Poetry like any other form of creative work is there to express the author’s thoughts, opinions and feelings to their audience. There are vast strategies that can be applied to help readers “make sense of it”. Which method you use relies heavily on the poem you are reading. Different poems call on different aspects of poetry, ways of reading, and the relationships between feelings, images and meaning. It is the purpose of this essay …

…mother and wife, with out consideration given to our many other talents as individuals. I think the lack of figurative language in the poem attracted me. I find metaphors, similes and so forth distracting sometimes to the true meaning of the poem. However the play on such words as spy and crook in the “The Black Art” cleverly comments on the power struggle between the giving nature of women and the taking temperament of men.