Kilah+Kemp

Artist Statement
==== I think that poetry is a way to describe how you are feeling when you are feeling it. I think that if someone was to say something about your art or your craft then you would get upset because that is something you hold dear. The poetry is something I like to do I have a variety of funny emotions sad emotions happy emotions I think that people express themselves in that way. I believe that without something to look forward too or something to believe in then you really have nothing at all. ====

I am you,
Billy Collins Section

All I do these drawn-out days

is sit in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridge

where there are no pheasants to be seen

and last time I looked, no ridge.

I could drive over to Quail Falls

and spend the day there playing bridge,

but the lack of a falls and the absence of quail

would only remind me of Pheasant Ridge.

I know a widow at Fox Run

and another with a condo at Smokey Ledge.

One of them smokes, and neither can run,

so I’ll stick to the pledge I made to Midge.

Who frightened the fox and bulldozed the ledge?

I ask in my kitchen at Pheasant Ridge.

I think that this poem has no target persons however I do believe that they want to address certain people who is kind of bored with life or neighborhood. I think that the poem doesn't have a set form or anything like that I think that the way it was written the two most powerful lines are at the very end and they are by themselves because of that. When I read this poem the image that was painted in my head was a autumn day and it was kind of dreary outside and it was kind of boring. I thought about boredom when I read this. Unlike Billy Collins other poems he really didn't have a specific line setting. It almost resembled a classic Shakespeare poem. This poem is very modern day dialogue. I think that this poem is very modern day.I think the mood of this poem is very boring and sad, it makes me think he is bored with his life. The image i continued to get in my head was definitely bored autumn day.

I have never been fishing on the Susquehanna

or on any river for that matter

to be perfectly honest.

Not in July or any month

have I had the pleasure--if it is a pleasure--

of fishing on the Susquehanna.

I am more likely to be found

in a quiet room like this one--

a painting of a woman on the wall,

a bowl of tangerines on the table--

trying to manufacture the sensation

of fishing on the Susquehanna.

There is little doubt

that others have been fishing

on the Susquehanna,

rowing upstream in a wooden boat,

sliding the oars under the water

then raising them to drip in the light.

But the nearest I have ever come to

fishing on the Susquehanna

was one afternoon in a museum in Philadelphia

when I balanced a little egg of time

in front of a painting

in which that river curled around a bend

under a blue cloud-ruffled sky,

dense trees along the banks,

and a fellow with a red bandanna

sitting in a small, green

flat-bottom boat

holding the thin whip of a pole.

That is something I am unlikely

ever to do, I remember

saying to myself and the person next to me.

Then I blinked and moved on

to other American scenes

of haystacks, water whitening over rocks,

even one of a brown hare

who seemed so wired with alertness

I imagined him springing right out of the frame.

The poem is not addressing anyone it is just something for the reader. Something that will entertain. I don't think it is for anybody. The only structure that i see is that there is three lines in each of the stanzas. I do not see any repition but I know that there is 39 lines and all of the stanzas are something off of the one before completing a action that makes a story.There is a repeated image to me is that he isn't actually fishing. I think that this is the story before the actual try to the sesqhanna, ethos is a pre pre deal i think that this is a constant thing it works on the i thin the power of consistencyall the lines are together and they make the poem a little more easier to understand. This poem is definitely modern I thought that is could have been written yesterday or something,…. I think the tone of the poem is sooo sarcastic and a little light like sunny or something like that

the words and phrases is in the first or second stanza he said "have I had the pleasure--if it is a pleasure--" and this made me think right off hand that this was definitely a sarcastic poem.The image in the poem to me is the river and I don't think this is one of those poems that is supposed to have the deeper meaning or something that has a hidden message I honestly think that this is just about him on the river.The overall effect of the poem is entertaining. I think that this poem was funny and all i did was think about him thinking that he was not going to have a great time fishing. I think that he really expect himself not to have fun.

Some days I put the people in their places at the table,

bend their legs at the knees,

if they come with that feature,

and fix them into the tiny wooden chairs.

All afternoon they face one another,

the man in the brown suit,

the woman in the blue dress,

perfectly motionless, perfectly behaved.

But other days, I am the one

who is lifted up by the ribs,

then lowered into the dining room of a dollhouse

to sit with the others at the long table.

Very funny,

but how would you like it

if you never knew from one day to the next

if you were going to spend it

striding around like a vivid god,

your shoulders in the clouds,

or sitting down there amidst the wallpaper,

staring straight ahead with your little plastic face?

I think this poem is just strictly to entertain the reader. I think that he was saying he has those day like everyone else in the world.The poem has a set structure like all of his poems I believe. Al of the stanzas have exactly four lines in them each of the stanzas are going with the one before in which they are explaining how he doesn't like something one day and the next day he is just fine. The structure I think is that this is a big opposite poem. He begins the poem off like One day I feel like this… and the next day I feel like this. He feels like isolating the world and then he feels like a vivid god the next. The lines are all connected, they all help paint the description of how he would feel on one day and how he would feel in the next day. I think that he purposely made the lines like that so they can pain a picture. The language in the poem is very informal and ver comfortable. That is what makes the poem so easy to read. I think that the poem is good because it is so modern and so easy to read.The tone is very sarcastic but this time it is a little more easy going than his last poem I think that he made it that way for a reason. I think he still wanted to keep that sarcastic thing going but not in the way that he did before.The image in the first stanza when he said "Some days I put the people in their places at the table,

bend their legs at the knees,

if they come with that feature,

and fix them into the tiny wooden chairs." It painted the most vivid picture for me and I liked it the most. I think that that made it that way for a reason I liked the way it fit into the poem. The authors use of Imagery and and his control shows the reader the opposites.