Fieldwork

The poem called fieldwork is about a woman is really in touch with the wildlife. She loves the outdoors and I would assume she would live their if she could. I do believe that she did visit a jungle or something for an extended period of time. The reason that I believe this is because it talks about the tree tops, different types of insects, and some other things. I also think that the perspective of the poem is being told from an animal of some sort. I am unsure of what type of animal it is, but I am pretty sure it is being told from an animal point of view. It talks about the painting Michelangelo painted and says “on the same day he finished the finger of god, as it lazed towards the finger of man.”  I think that this animal is talking about the rain forest getting destroyed. I believe this because it also says “and everything would come later, taxonomy and papers and extension of her grant, had nothing to do with her gratitude toward the jar and the black and red, the fierce creature inside, which she set on her pillow and touched from time to time to remind her body of its life in the trees.” It talks about taxation and papers that will come later. I think that these are the trees and the grant is the trees paying for the taxation. She in the previous quote is Mother Nature and the lives in her trees are whatever animal that lives in it.

I wrote the previous blog before this one….