Poetry

Blue Willow
by Jody Gladding
A pond will deepen toward the center like a plate
we traced its shallow rim my mother steering
my inner tube past the rushes where I looked
for Moses we said it was a trip around the world
in China we wove through curtains of willow
that tickled our necks let's do that again
and we'd double back idle there lifting
our heads to the green rains
wallows met over us later I dreamed
of flying with them we had all the time
in the world we had the world
how could those trees be weeping?
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I chose this poem because I thought that first of all the title was clever. Also I have a pond in my backyard that used to have a lot of weeping willow trees and still has a few so I found it interesting.
The title is clever because the poem talks of a wonderful pond with weeping trees, that just don't seem to fit. The title is Blue Willow, or sad tree, like the weeping willow they suggest.
One poetic device they use is a simile in the first line. This adds details to the pond and helps the reader picture the gorgeous place, like imagery. They also use an allusion when they mension Moses in the fourth line. This shows how magical and amazing the pond is to the author, and helps emphasize that there is no reason for the trees to be weeping.
The tone of the peace is questioning, almost doubtful I would say. The author creates this by creating a picture of a beautiful place to convince the reader that nothing should be sad or weeping near the pond, like even say a tree.