Reading Response

 Cervantes lays a wonderful world of imagery pitting two destitute lifestyles against each other. Goldbartth's poem doesn't so much lay out imagery but rather the strength of this poem lies in the subject matter and the presentation of this from the voice.  I like the fact that he takes headlines from grocery store and incorporates poetry from them.  Jim Morrison did the same thing, junkyard quotes believe it or not.  He obviously did not call them "junkyard quotes" but he would write in his journal slogans from billboards and commercial slogans, which he includes in Break on thru when at the end of the song he says: Stronger than dirt.  For those who are too young to know, he got that from a Tide commercial.  Anyways,   Booth's poem is very Frost-like to me, which the book states is a huge influence.  These poems lay a wonderful example of what  good poetry sounds like when you follow some of the editing questions we went over in class on wednesday.  All three of these poems seems straight forward, but say so much without premise indicators dictating them, as well as lofty overstated imagery.