Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!
Anyway let's get right to it,
Well before we get started here, I do have to say that this is on behalf of the checklist challenge and that I don't normally review poetry. I'm just going to be mostly providing the impressions that I have on the piece, because I'm really not the greatest when it comes down to the more technical side of things here.
Okay...so right off the bat the title and the sort of on the surface meaning seems to be suggesting this person is simply taking about toys and their movement. Its seems almost straightforward if you don't think too far, and there's a sense that its going to be something rather simple going on here, but of course as is usually the case with poems, if you think about things a bit more, things start to get a little concerning rather quickly with the somewhat deeper connotations of this.
You get the feeling that our writer here is talking about someone who is perhaps going through a bit of a rough patch in life and you get the idea that perhaps this person as a result isn't taking care of themselves too well. And then the comparison to these toys really make things sound a lot more concerning as we can see this person who has sort of given up themselves and is sort of just barely moving through life. It really creates a powerful effect here and I think the repetition you employ here really plays quite a big role in that.
Overall, I think you really created quite a powerful piece here, with an almost whimsical meaning up on the surface, but with something so much more powerful there towards the end.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
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