week 2 "The Snow Man", "The Tempest" and "The Marvel"

"The Tempest" intrigues me because I do not quite understand some parts. "The rapture was over"- can this be referring to the world coming to an end? If this really is set in the in mid west like Mississippi is this a religious woman is consumed with faith and god but harshly meeting reality? The break between stanzas, to me, simulates a change in time, sort of like moving from one scene to a later one. As is some woman has pulled her self together (from crying and grieving tragedy) and is moving onto a new phase of her life. I would love some input into others' ideas of this reading.

For me, "The Snow Man" was a very structured poem, five stanzas, three lines in each and the line breaks as well as the punctuation correlate to how I would construct a poem. The imagery and words used to describe winter are pleasant ( I wish it would cool down already) like frost, shagged with ice, and glitter. This was easy to my eye and very descriptive.

"The Marvel", however, grabbed me like neither of the first two poems did. In the first stanza we read about a swordfish being killed. I think it is clever how the word "marvel" sounds like marble because I know taxidermists use marbles for eyes of things like ducks and deer and big fish because obviously eyes won't stay clean and out together like fur or feathers do. This poem uses a lot of powerful and grotesque words and phrases to describe a swordfish with a gouged out eye like sharp enquiring blade, corpse, rotted, digested, burning eye and engrave.