Cruelty Ai Poem
The Collected Poems of Ai Poet Ai is more of a Persona Poet, than a Confessional Poet. She tells extremely detailed stories of her life, sometimes in second person and at time as a male. As I started reading the poems, there were time I was asking myself if she was a lesbian, I just was confused in what she was trying to convey, and then with a little more research I learned she was a multifaceted poet, which takes the reader through many twists and turns of her sometime happy or very disturbing life. The Collected poems of Ai, is broken up into several sections from each of her books. Cruelty, Liking Floor, Sin, Fate, Greed, Vice, Dread and No Surrender. In Cruelty Ai tells the reader a story about giving birth to a child that has to be
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She tells the reader that she has done this before, brought a child into this world, just as her mother did, while the last man could not take care of the last child, is this one going to do any better? Ai also states that it is the same road her mother went down with her as a child. Other things that intrigued me with her style of telling all, is that Ai seems to give the reader the deepest, dark details of her life struggles. In the section called, Greed there is a poem titled, “Family Portrait.” This is a very personal piece that states how her young girls aged 7 and 11 need to take a shower. The girls are handed towels and soap and teaches them to bend over the proper way and wash their, “hairless entrances into themselves.” Ai’s use of language is very detailed and very alive. She puts me back in a place when I was a child. There is not much form to her poems as it all seems to be personal narratives and some longer poems that she refers to as fiction. They can be found in the part of the book titled, Fate which is a collection of poems about politics, eroticism, show business as tragic comedy performed by men and women banished to the bare stage of their obsessions. This is where I started to get a bit confused who the speakers are, men or women, this is when I could not tell if she was a lesbian or who was speaking as I found an array of different wording that was gender specific, or homosexual
She tells the reader that she has done this before, brought a child into this world, just as her mother did, while the last man could not take care of the last child, is this one going to do any better? Ai also states that it is the same road her mother went down with her as a child. Other things that intrigued me with her style of telling all, is that Ai seems to give the reader the deepest, dark details of her life struggles. In the section called, Greed there is a poem titled, “Family Portrait.” This is a very personal piece that states how her young girls aged 7 and 11 need to take a shower. The girls are handed towels and soap and teaches them to bend over the proper way and wash their, “hairless entrances into themselves.” Ai’s use of language is very detailed and very alive. She puts me back in a place when I was a child. There is not much form to her poems as it all seems to be personal narratives and some longer poems that she refers to as fiction. They can be found in the part of the book titled, Fate which is a collection of poems about politics, eroticism, show business as tragic comedy performed by men and women banished to the bare stage of their obsessions. This is where I started to get a bit confused who the speakers are, men or women, this is when I could not tell if she was a lesbian or who was speaking as I found an array of different wording that was gender specific, or homosexual