Jackson, Wordsworth and Bolen

        The first poem, “Anthem for My Belly After Eating Too Much,” an anthem’s definition is “a rousing or uplifting song identified with a particular group, body, or cause.” This was a poem about a genuine, challenging topic that is happening today with many young people, especially women and young girls. She connects something that everyone loves and something necessary for humans to live, food, and how that relates to how we are viewed in the world. Food is a thing that is necessary for life, but people’s opinions of the way people look, some people think that is way more important and necessary. 

        “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth describes the narrator as a cloud, something that is light, fluffy, and blows where the wind takes it. This poem describes a happy memory of a field of daffodils by a lake that comes to the narrator's mind and eyes whenever they are feeling down. Wordsworth uses the word “crowd” when describing the daffodils to suggest a theme of the relationship between humans and nature. A relationship that Wordsworth can use to describe humans as clouds and as daffodils. 

“Quarantine” by Eaven Bolen recalls a hard time for a couple. It gets very personal when it describes part of the couple's final moments together, and the husband shared the last of his body heat with his wife by holding her feet to his chest. The word “worst” is widespread in this poem, and it emphasizes the terrible conditions that this couple had to go through. The last sentence in stanza two talks about “freezing stars,” which I found interesting because stars are hot, balls of gas in the sky. Bolen’s phrasing here shows the effect of saying how cold that night was for this couple.