Monday, October 27, 2008
I'm Going to Sleep-Alfonsina Storni
I thought that this poem was really interesting. The way that Storni transitions from sleeping on an ordinary night to dying was really smooth. I thought is was really interesting that she uses the word "Nurse" in the second stanza. When I read the poem the first time, I saw the Nurse as someone who was taking care of a sick person and was seeing to it that she was going to sleep for the night. It was interesting because I would thought that if Storni would have wanted to show the poem as death in the beginning, she would have used the word Mother or Father. Usually, when someone is about to die, they would have referred to a family member who has died, usually their parents. I don't know whether what I just said makes sense...Anyway, the third stanza is the transitional stanza where Storni starts to talk less about falling asleep and more about a peaceful death. She creates an image of peace by saying "high above" and "celestial foot" and "a bird sings some lullaby notes". These three images create a sense of leaving Earth. Finally, the last stanza is the stanza in which she has left the Earth by saying "tell him/not to ask for me; tell him I have gone".
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