Snapping Beans Analysis- from presentation
This narrative poem tells the story of a
speaker and her grandmother. The grandmother asks the speaker about college, to
which the speaker lies and says “its fine”. The diction in this story is
informal and the speaker is a girl. The girl is still trying to get used to
college, but is having some obvious problems adjusting, as pictured when she
speaks of crying at night. Based on the speaker’s thoughts about college life,
the speaker has yet to get accustomed to what she has seen. There are
interesting images of the scenery in this poem, too. The differences of the
speaker’s description of her college life and the images of the grandmother
sitting on the porch with cornfields spread out in front of their house, is
evidently shown throughout the poem. The end of the poem is one big metaphor.
The “hickory leaf” symbolizes the speaker. As the leaf is blowing loose, it
symbolizes the speaker going to college. When the leaf is hanging and “summer
green”, it symbolizes the speaker being home for summer. The speaker had to
leave her family and go to college to grow up on her own. The relationship
between the grandma and the speaker is an interesting one. The both obviously
love each other, but the speak lies and hides her pain. The grandma is
traditional and religious. The speaker does not want to upset the grandma or
bring up things that will again upset the speaker. Being with her grandma is
relaxing and calming and away from the stresses of her college life.
Lisa Parker does a great job at narrating
their relationship, and showing imagery through her story-telling format.
Matt Sandelands
from presentation on 11/6/2012
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