The Poetry of Bad Weather Commentary

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Overall, the tone of this poem is gloomy and its content reflects a longing mood. The poem is made up of seven 3-lined stanzas with no particular rhyme. The first sentence explains that the classroom is not a place where students want to be because they prepare ahead of time to leave or escape it. The second sentence begins to explain why it is not a good place to be by showing how Florida changes little and is dull since it is still hot in the winter month of February. You can tell that it is still hot because the room smells like sunscreen (tanning butter) while the teacher is teaching. The questions refer to how the students take their hot surroundings for granted since they experience them all the time whereas poets of the North have to endure cold winters which make them wish for warmer weather. This wish for warmer weather gives them more passion in their writing thus making their poems better. This passion and the better experiences of winter are why they live in the North. We can realize that the most recurrent theme is that of nature specifically weathers and perhaps changing seasons. In the section after the questions, the teacher is wishing for a window. She wants one for her students so that they can look outside and enjoy nature even if they take it for granted by watching the clock and waiting for the bell all day. In the section after this she refers to how she wants their region to resemble that of the north by being snowy with petals that fall and move around so much like snow that they make the classroom seem still. The section beginning with the dull roar of the air refers to the stillness the teacher wants for her room where the only noise is the air and not the murmurs of students. She then follows through with this idea by removing the sounds of cellphones which like chirping birds. The last section of the poem is referring to what the
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