Analysis of I Hardly Remember by Rafeal Guillen
T- A person who struggles to remember a time in their life
A person who is haunted by a past time
A person who has amnesia/Alzheimer
P-
I don’t remember your voice, but the pain from you
floats in my blood.
I keep you with me, trapped
like a venus fly trap that refuses to give up it’s victim.
It was looking to devour in the South.
A plant without nourishment.
No beauty existed, but weeds and vines surrounded it.
The time of day rejected us
I kept you close and struggled to see you.
Spring was bringing about.
The plant forced to thrive in the spring air.
Your hand balanced, with its steady heat,
the indecisive warmness of alcohol. The beauty
of your “body” brought me to new places.
My excited arose to your breasts.
Carpets, like tentacles, wriggling down to the strand,
attracted passers by to the mouth of the clamor.
With lights and curtains, above the tedium
the bedrooms murmured in the grand hotels.
There are times when our weight gives in
from our sexual intimacy.
Moments when our nakedness
destructs itself, sucking life from itself.
I searched for your touch
but love was not where I found your touch.
I felt you stroke my physical being
but there was no feeling with your hands.
I seek your soulless surrender,
for a place where I can be at peace,
yearning to hear a trace of the vendor’s voice
still wet with the glimmer of the flapping minnows.
It was looking to devour in the South.
An aroma was tainted with whiskey breath.
I will hold on to the embrace inside me
like a foreign object the flesh tried to reject.
C-
Imagery- “I carry you in the depths, trapped in the sludge like one of those corpses
the sea refuses to give dup.
Point of view- First person “I held you so close I could barely see you”
Simile- “I carry that dead embrace inside me yet like a foreign object the flesh tries
to reject”
A-
Deep feelings and sadness
Ex. Hardly remember, pain, trapped, dark moments, my high-tide rose, I groped
around me, I searched, I carry that dead embrace…
S-
Punctuation- commas and periods are used very often
Key words- but
Stanza division- divisions between every four lines
T-
After looking at the title again, I think the title is describing the pain and suffering of remembering his loved one.
T-
Don’t fall to deep in love unless your willing to take the heartache when their gone.
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