Guilty Secret: sometimes I sit in class in theology lectures and pretend i took English Lit…
Slow it down for now,
Understand what I’m saying…
My lips move, your eyes take care to hear what I’m communicating.
But, no sound rests upon you,
You can’t slow it down.
You just keep on moving.
Swift like Gazelle
Where are you?
You don’t want to know,
Analysis and Annotation
Analysis and Annotation
Slow it down for now, for now? Possible that writer wishes at some point to ‘speed up’, but int he future? To a lover? Excited for an adventure maybe…but not ready yet?
Understand what I’m saying…first person pronoun. A statement however use of ellipsis portrays it not as a command but as a desire?
My lips move, your eyes take care to hear what I’m communicating. Once again the use of first person provides evidence that the writer is writing from a personal level. It is emotive and intimate. Use of rhyming couplets ‘saying’ ‘communciating’ = a and a. Evidence of broken relationship is conveyed through ‘my’ vs. ‘your’- the brokenness is the lack of communication expressed so clearly, this is ironic.
But, no sound rests upon you,
You can’t slow it down.
You just keep on moving.
Swift like Gazelle… Use of simile, and unlikely aspect of the text, especially the comparison between animal and human, however this is very effective as it is almost like the writer is talking to an animal, for the other person is non-responsive, goes its own way, does what it wants despite what it is told, animalistic. Furthermore the reference to Gazelle is valuable in conveying the writers opinion of the other, not malicious etc.
Where are you? Where are you?
You don’t want to know,
I’ve got the key you know. Change of form and font, this is the prominent point, it is an enigma and thus creates mystery. Begs the question ‘key to what?’
