Prompt:
- Dissect this poem and apply it to Lily’s life.
- Dissect this poem and apply it to August, June, and May’s lives.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Wk. 4 Option #8: Poetry Dissection #2
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This poem by Lucille Clifton applies to all of the characters from The Secret Life of Bees. Lily can mostly connect to the line, “I am the riddle, she is trying to answer.” Lily is always lying and Rosaleen doesn’t really like it. On page 73 Rosaleen get a little upset with all the lies. “August shook her head, Rosaleen shook hers, too, but for a different reason.” The riddle that the Boatwright’s sisters are trying to answer is who Lily really is. The character May can connect to the line, “i am the sieve, she strains from, little by little, every day.” May has carried the weight of the world on her shoulders and has been like a sieve and it has strained her little by little until chapter 10 when she killed herself. Little things can pick away at you till you cannot take it anymore. Well, May had many things that she needed to get out and was the cause of her death.
ReplyDeleteThe Character June can be connected to the line, “i am the rind, she is discarding.” June is not a very nice person towards Lily, she also is refusing to marry Neil even though he loves her. She is like a rind that is being thrown away because she is throwing her life away by not marrying Neil and being rude and mean to Lily. Even May as her dying wish said, “It’s my time to die, and it’s your time to live. Don’t mess it up.” This shows that June is throwing her life away and needs to make changes so she can live it to the fullest. The line from the poem, “something is moving, in the water. she is the hook. I am the line,” describes the character August. She is a uplifting soul and will hook you and pull you into her life with open arms. She is always there to give advice and she will pull you in like a line and be there for you. August is a nice person and is my favorite character in the book.
i am the sieve*
ReplyDeleteshe strains from
little by little
everyday.
i am the rind**
she is discarding.
i am the riddle
she is trying to answer.
something is moving
in the water.
she is the hook.
i am the line.
This relates to Lily's life for many reasons. The first stanza I am the sieve she strains from me little by little. it's like Lily is trying to seperate what's true and what isn't with her mother. She slowly finds the truth about her mother but during the process she divides up each lie and turth she finds. The second stanza I am the Rind she is Discarding is basiclly T. Ray. She discards or gets rid of T. Ray like rind and goes to run away. She doesn't really have any other use for him and that's what rind is like. The third stanza I am the riddle she is trying to answer. Her riddle is her mind and heart. Lily was trying to find out the real truth on what happened with her mom. It's the thing she is searching for. The fourth, something is moving in the water she is the hook i am the line. The thing that is moving in the water is her steadily coming truth. Lily is the hook that is used to catch the fish or her truth. Deberoh is the line or the reason why she is out there searching or like a fishing rod, the thing that holds the hook together.
This relates to the Calandar sister because, August is the one who knows what to do. She has years of knowledge and wisdom so she divides that up with what she knows to help find the way to success. The second one relates to June because she discards Lily's feelings and wants to get rid of her because she fears that she will be bad luck. The third one the riddle she is trying to answer is like May. She is like a riddle because she needs to have some thought on before you encounter her. Like a riddle you have to think through every single thing you say.
Lily is just a teenager girl so if her father was good enough he would be the one but for this time it could be Rosaleen.August,June and May they have to be together to live normal life, like august could be line and her sisters are hook
ReplyDelete"I am the riddle" refers to the mystery of Deborah. "She is trying to answer" is Lily trying to find out more about Deborah. "She is the hook i am the line" relates to Lily's life becuase Lily is like the hook and Deborah is the line. Without the line(Deborah), the hook(Lily), seems useless to the handle,(T Ray). "I am the rind she is discarding" relates to Lily becuase she left or discarded T Ray and ran away.
ReplyDelete4 Daughters relates to thew Boatwrights becuase they used to have four sisters until the day one of them became depressed. "She is the hook i am the line" related to May, August, and June. August and June are like the line becuase they had to take care of May and make sure it doesn't brake away from the line. When May heard the bad news of Zach, that's when the line broke. May broke away from her sisters and left the world. "I am the riddle she is trying to answer" refers to August and June trying to find an answer to May's problem.
i am the sieve*
ReplyDeleteshe strains from
little by little
everyday.
Dissection: T. Ray takes his anger out on Lily by abusing her and making her undergo severe punishments everyday.
i am the rind**
she is discarding.
Dissection: T. Ray treats Lily as if she were trash that he was throwing away rather than his daughter.
i am the riddle
she is trying to answer.
Dissection: Deborah is the ‘riddle’ Lily is trying to answer. This is because Lily is trying to figure out who her mother, Deborah, was.
something is moving
in the water.
she is the hook.
i am the line.
Dissection: There is beginning to be production in Lily finding out about her mother. She is learning more and more about her everyday.
This poem applies to Lily because before, her mother was becoming less and less real to her. Lily trying to sustain an image of her mother not leaving her, when the truth was, she really was going to leave. Making Lily suffer all lone with T.Ray. Deborah was slipping away, like a liquid away from the strainer,Lily. Lily was the rind. She was being thrown away, left alone to rot in darkness. Deborah didn't care for her, she just threw her away, easy as that, just tried to throw her away, and poof, she would've been gone.
ReplyDeleteThis poem relates to the Boatwrights because the are all tied together. June is the line, August is the hook, and May it the object moving in the water. June and August are tring to find May, but they can't, and they lose her. Now, in reality, May slipped of the hook(August), who was connected to the line(June), and she is gone.
Reading this poem, there are so many ways to relate this to Lily's life. When the poem says "i am the rind she is discarding," I imagine Lily thinking she is the rind and her mother discarding her. When the poem says "i am the riddle she is trying to answer," I think of Lily's mother as the riddle and Lily is trying to answer and figure out, essentially, her life.
ReplyDeleteThere are less ways to relate this poem to August, June, and May's life. When the poem says "something is moving in the water," I immediately think of May's dead body in the river. When the poem says "i am the sieve
she strains from little by little everyday," I think of Lily as the sieve and August, June, and May are figuring her out, or "straining" her everyday.
Lily was the sieve her mother strained through, separating the happy from the sad. At first Deborah left lily, but then she realized her mistake and went back because she remembered the happiness lily gave her. Lily was the "rind" that her mother "discarded" when she left for Tiburon. Finally, Deborah was the riddle that Lily was trying to answer. Where did her mother go? What did she do?
ReplyDeleteJune discarded Neil at first, like one discards an old potato peel. May went through her sisters who were like a sieve. The tried to separate the happy from the sad and keep the happy. May was the riddle the sisters were trying to solve. They wanted to know how to make her better so that she wasn't sad anymore. Lastly August was the line for may's hook. She helped her and kept her from floating away.
I am the riddle she is trying to answer- It can be related to lily's life because she wants to unravel more truths about her mother
ReplyDeleteSomething is moving in the water she is the hook and I am the line- This can be related to may because she always feels down.
I am the sieve she strains from little by little everyday- This can be related to august because she is caring, and she tries to separate people's troubles from them
I am the rind she is discarding- This can be related to june because she has that little jealous and rude side to herself
this quotes has a lot to do with the life lilly has been living for the last one month a long with the boatwright sisters, august, june, and formaly may, who recently commited suciced. the part of the poem where it says "four daughters" this is like lilly, june, august, rosaleen. the four daughters of mary. they all believe in the black mary. and the four of them consider themselves the four daugters of mary. along with many other members of their church. when lilly and rosaleen first move into the pepto bimso pink house along with the boatwrite sisters. the first of the sisters that started to doubt lilly's story of t-ray dying in a tractor accident and they are moving to their aunt's home. was i think the oldest sister august. ever since they moved in with them august was trying to figure what was really going on between lilly and rosaleen.this is like the part of the poem where it states "i am the riddle" which would be liily and rosaleen. "which she is trying to solve" which would be august.
ReplyDeletei am the sieve*
ReplyDeleteshe strains from
- may losing her sister.Always wanting her back
little by little
everyday.
i am the rind**
she is discarding.
-Lily is showing her true colors
i am the riddle
she is trying to answer.
-Lily finding new things out about her mother
-why may killed herself
something is moving
in the water.
-mays body is underwater when they find her
she is the hook.
i am the line.
-the only reason August and June keep going is because May would want them too.
This poem by Lucille Clifton relates to Lily, August, May and June. The part of the poem that goes "I am the riddle she is trying to answer" reminds me of Lily. Right when she arrived at the Boatwright's, they knew she was not speaking the full truth. All of them, specifically August, tried to find out what she was hiding. The stanza of the poem that reminds me of May is "I am the sieve she strains from little by little everyday." She had to take on everyone's problems. Eventually, she ended up with so much weight on her shoulders that she just couldn't take it anymore. The same stanza also reminds me of August. August is the binding, the one that holds everyone together. She, too, listens to everyone's problems and tries to help them. Fortunately, they don't effect her quite as harshly as they did May. "Something is moving in the water. She is the hook. I am the line." made me think of June. She desperately wants to marry Neil, but is afraid. It explains how they are connected but different.
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