Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Can anyone provide me with a poetry ysis of X.J. Kennedy's "In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One Day."?
Not an ysis but I can say, he really seems to know a lot about details from the old days..I think the theme is the higher you go the further the fall.You really hear the old woman in the way he writes the poem, it isn't just about the sad decent into old age but the woman has completely fallen from grace, out of her social standing, into the seedy world of Secaucus, which of you knew it, is the stinkiest place you would ever want to smell or be in because the meadowlands has a gas smell like a pig farm. So there isn't a more low down place for a dive bar, which he paradoxically calls prominent. In effect the drunk lady is a lost soul who feels she is too good for the company she keeps, and she is telling them that by bragging about her glory days. The cheer at the end may be more for the guy calling the cops to take her away...to the drunk tank? I never saw a red police car so I wonder if that has a special meaning?
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