05-15-2022, 02:14 PM
(05-14-2022, 07:07 AM)brynmawr1 Wrote: GravityI struggle to follow the argument here.
Gravity weighs on her.
“Only a theory,” She thinks.
Struggling to get above ground,
it pulls her down.
To the center of herself,
the places she doesn’t want to know.
“Ignorance is bliss,” she thinks.
Gravity never let her go.
My wife doesn't like the cliche of "ignorance is bliss" but I think it works here. What do you all think?
If she thinks that gravity is only a theory, then she won’t think that ignorance is bliss because in doing that she is admitting to herself that thinking gravity to be ONLY a theory (and ignoring for now the implication that theories don’t somehow work to get rockets up and apples down). It is an unwarranted self awareness that here is illogical rather than ironic.
While gravity, which catches up with us all, has a vast number of metaphorical associations, none of tj are relevant if the central conceit of the poem is flawed.

