Monday April 13th - April 20th

Anne Carson’s ability to intertwine Greek Mythology with in the poetry setting and carry it on for the duration of the novel. It was interesting to see how Carson focused on the color red throughout the novel (also included in the title). Again, I love looking at the title of a book to see how the title is working throughout the novel. From the beginning the color red is a vibrant color that emanates and makes a huge impression throughout the novel. “Greyon was a monster everything about him was re” (Carson 9). The color red is associated with a monster. The snout was red, again a nose or snout is not the favorite part of a body, again associated with colors. Some sentences even have the color red present in twice in sentences. Carson really emphasizes the importance of color. Greyon’s death is associated with the color red, even his mind (which must be dark and forbidden) with that color. Heaven, on the other hand, does not mention red. I also love looking at her writing as far as what is all capitalized like (NIGHTS BOLLSNORTED); Carson’s way of emphasizing certain points is an amazing contrast to other writing points. When Carson gets into the actual meat of her poetry she writes so beautifully, it flows so even, and it carries its own tone. In the section “TUESDAY” her poem starts of “Tuesdays were best” so it emphasized the title and it was separated by but a break. She then dove right into why. I like how some of the italicize is like in the begging the questions of poetry then it moves into comments. The sentences are fun too, some continue on without end punctuation and pick it to the next. I think was keeps her work so contemporary is that each poem or section moves on with different standards. The punctuations and text style flow but vary from each work. One of my favorite I love the references to burros because they ears are always pointing the skies. I think this fun because the donkeys are what carried pregnant married and the cross represents where Mary riding on the donkey. So I think it is important to recognize as the donkeys as holly and looking up to the sky. This is a nice contrast between Greyon’s red and the burros and heaven. I thought that is was really interesting or a social comment on photos and still photography. I love the play against what pictures represent and what the stars represent. The stars are far away and this is the same sense as photographs. A picture and the moment that happened in this sense are so far away from the present it is so easy to look a photo and remember what times were even though things are far from. Then there is a sense of referring back to photos throughout the remainder of the novel, Carson just has an amazing way of referring back to points mentioned earlier in her novel.