I found this collection of poems to be a bit confusing. We have not done any poetry in this class yet, and it has been quite a while since I have done poetry at all. For this week's blog, I decided to write about "Walking on Water" (or at least try to.
"Walking on Water" kind of reminded me of the ending of O'Connor's "Revelation." It seemed to have some sort of religious background. Dickey talks about Heaven, and I think people (and maybe sharks) that are going there. Also the title seems to hold some sort of religious meaning. The bible talks a lot about water. Jesus walked on the water, so maybe he thinks that he is choosing who goes to heaven like he thinks he is Jesus.
The beginning of the poem seems to imply peace and serenity which is what heaven is supposed to be like. The part "the shark Lay buried and followed" also implies death. There is also the part that talks about the burning deck, reminds me of the burning bush in the bible. Altogether, I think that this poem has a very religious meaning to it, much like "Revelation." As it probably appears, I do not really know for sure what is going on in this poem, but this is my best guess.
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I am horrible at interpreting poetry. But I had a similar notion of this poem. I never thought of it as Jesus walking on water, but now that you mentioned it, that makes more sense. I thought is was more of a superior being to Jesus. It reminded me of The Craft. Although this poem seems to be about death, it is more of a peaceful idea, rather than violently dying. The sense of the beach always seems peaceful. Even the shark doesn't seem like a threat.
I was confused about the burning deck. I read it right in-context. The only thing I could think of was that they were by the beach, so the scorching sun made the deck hot (obviously).
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