Appreciation of American poet Susan Stewart’s poem ‘May 1988’
Appreciation of American poet Susan Stewart’s poem ‘May 1988’ I request readers to read the poem from the link https://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/may88.html and my review next. Thanks. The poem’s strength is it is on a specific month ‘May 1988’ during which Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan her soldiers as committed in the ‘Geneva accord’ in 1987. The poem is a straight one and does not need the reviewer’s interpretation of any stanza. I find the following expressions very poetic: In the first stanza there is‘the anarchic old flag’. There is no hint whatsoever which flat she points to. The flag is metaphor for the institutions in general. If political centres of power promote war, the finance system of civilians expands the divide between haves and have-nots. In this stanza she lists some people events, happenings around who go unnoticed: The egg that breaks on the way from the market, the straw that breaks as it breaks down the load, the meter that stops and the batt
