to exaggerate statements that are not true.
Appropriate Poem Example:
Appetite
Rynn Williams
The merest suggestion of mouth
and I was ravenous—I filled the house
with chocolate, chestnuts, strudel,
blood sausage; I bathed in butter.
A glimpse of tongue and I was undone,
simply a hint of heavy cream
and the wax came off in a greasy slab,
there were no cauldrons large enough.
I imagined his body drawn in sections,
flank, ribs, and tenderloin, I rubbed
the blade to sparks, my stove walls
sweated, windows dripping.
Afterwards the house was a shell.
My tongue: scorched white.
I had to staple my stomach
down to the size of a lichee nut.
Thimbleful of broth, thimbleful
of gruel, the merest suggestion
floods my mouth with memory
so rich I practically drown.
Biographical Information:
Born in New York City, Williams received her BA and MA from New York University, where she studied journalism and English. In 2001, Williams received a New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and returned to Warren Wilson’s low-residency MFA program. In 2004, she won the Prairie Schooner Book Award for Poetry for her book, Adonis Garage. Poet Mark Doty said of Adonis Garage, “You couldn't ask for a more articulate ars poetica. Williams beats out of difficulty and gorgeousness her own lyrics of pleasure and fury, in poems that sing and lament a fierce urban matrix, where there’s ‘Mary-rage in the off-duty taxicabs, but God bless/ the satin of born-again swagger.’ Assured and vulnerable, passionate and undeceived, Adonis Garage is a thrilling debut.” She taught English at Bloomfield College in Bloomfield New Jersey. In July of 2009, Williams died in Brooklyn, New York at the age of 47.
Interpretation of poem:
This poem talks about hunger. Also it use descriptive words to describe the different foods.
Visual Representation:
Explanation of Visual:
This Visual explains the poem very well. The old saying "eyes bigger than your stomach" fits the poem as well, because its talks about how you visualize the types of food that you would like to eat. When you get a chance to eat your stomach cant fulfill the visual that you had before, because you begin to get full.
Citations:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rynn-Williams
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/238556