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Poet: Li-Young Lee
Poem: This Room And Everything In It
Comment 2 of 2, added on January 31st, 2006 at 2:12 PM.
WOW. this is FLIPPIN confusing. but we're smart. so. we, like amanda, believe that this poem is the first time the speaker had sex. All these things that he talks about ("love-cries, scent etc") are all the things he wants to remember- when the love with this woman evaporates. He wants to stash all these memories of his sexual endeavors in "this room and everything in it" so that he may look back on it when the time comes- when he feels that love will not ... BUT THE ONE THING we do not understand is this last stanza, where he all of sudden, FORGETS wtf his idea is about... WHAT DOES THIS MEEEEEANNNN??? WTF 0_0. when he describes the book, on the windowsill, we believe that this is the point in his "love makin" that he is completely "into it" so that time seems endless, like the flipping of the pages, and the flipping from past to present will not stop- his memories and future is flashing before his eyes. -whoa- deep eh? the line "useless, useless" seems to imply that love itself is useless and that all it is is sex, and nothing comes from it. but he still seems to have hope, and wants to find the true meaning of love- he'll never stop looking.. one thing we also don't get is "your closed eyes my extinction." we looked up the word extinction and the psychological meaning was the loss of excitability, which totally didn't make sense in the poem. (please, if anyone knows get back to us) THANKKKYUUUUU. lee is such a kool man. >__<
-KELLAN & CECILIA
CECILIA & KELLAN from United States
Comment 1 of 2, added on March 2nd, 2005 at 10:17 AM.
so i read this poem and at first i didnt know what to make of it. i had no idea of what it could have been about. I thought about it, though, and came to the understanding of it being about the first time the narrator made love. there are certain lines in the poem i didnt understand though and threw me off a little bit... if anyone wants to respond to this via my e-mail acount please feel free... thank you and have a nice day everyone.
amanda from United States
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WOW. this is FLIPPIN confusing. but we're smart. so. we, like amanda, believe that this poem is the first time the speaker had sex. All these things that he talks about ("love-cries, scent etc") are all the things he wants to remember- when the love with this woman evaporates. He wants to stash all these memories of his sexual endeavors in "this room and everything in it" so that he may look back on it when the time comes- when he feels that love will not ... BUT THE ONE THING we do not understand is this last stanza, where he all of sudden, FORGETS wtf his idea is about... WHAT DOES THIS MEEEEEANNNN??? WTF 0_0. when he describes the book, on the windowsill, we believe that this is the point in his "love makin" that he is completely "into it" so that time seems endless, like the flipping of the pages, and the flipping from past to present will not stop- his memories and future is flashing before his eyes. -whoa- deep eh? the line "useless, useless" seems to imply that love itself is useless and that all it is is sex, and nothing comes from it. but he still seems to have hope, and wants to find the true meaning of love- he'll never stop looking.. one thing we also don't get is "your closed eyes my extinction." we looked up the word extinction and the psychological meaning was the loss of excitability, which totally didn't make sense in the poem. (please, if anyone knows get back to us) THANKKKYUUUUU. lee is such a kool man. >__<
-KELLAN & CECILIA
CECILIA & KELLAN from United States