Blog 5/23/12

When I first began to read the poems in Roberson's City Eclogue I personally found them very confusing until I took the time to sit down and examine them. While some of the poems took me some time to analyze and figure out and get the message of them I did enjoy the book. I realized that I enjoyed the poems at about the time I reached 'Beauty's Standing". I enjoyed the poems for the fact I had personally had not endured some of the things the poems were about.

My favorite section in the book that was under the half way mark of City Eclogue was the section called 'Beauty's Standing'. To me it explained how humanity has taken over nature and the planet. It tells about how humanity has turned the world ugly in building its cities and how those cities have almost a flesh like look but are not. It does a very good job of explaining how humans have become materialistic and lost most if not all of the values that we once had.

Throughout the last half of the book one of the things I noticed was that so much politics were involves. The quote "Family Values were always a disguise to hide the values a following had, to the families positioned to live outside values not profitable to their Olympiad-- despite the toll-- values = mere votes for their pull." helps me see this political part. It talked about how people like political officials no longer see people as people but as mere votes to win over.