Are you nothing or something?

        "How are you, Nothing, sitting around with Something's wife." (6/7) really had my mind spinning. One reason it has my mind spinning is I am not sure on who the speaker is. Is the speaker Lorine or Lorine mother or both. I can see it being Lorines mother more than Lorine because in another poem I assume it was Lorines mother and she referred to Lorine as a nothing. Why does she see her daughter as a nothing? I just noticed also that if its the mother she is calling Lorine husband a something instead of his name. Why does she keep referring to them as nothing and something when they are human beings and have names. Lorines mother should be proud of Lorine for who she was. Lorine was her own person. She didn't want to be like everyone else and I think that's what her mother wanted.

        In her poem "My Life By Water" she describes the things she sees and hears. She says "Muskrats gnawing doors" which door is she talking about and why doesn't she try to prevent that from happening. In class we had a discussion about this poem and how she might feel about everything that she sees and hears. I said that she must be okay or content with the muskrats gnawing at the door because she has done anything to stop them from doing that. I know she loves nature and muskrats are part of nature and she does not want to do anything to harm anything related to nature. But there is a way where she could prevent them from doing that without harming the animals.

        Although that poem was set up different it was a really good poem. When you have more than one person read the poem you hear different words go with different lines. Poems like that keep you thinking about find a bigger meaning. Most of Lorines poems do that and I applauded her for that. I cant wait to continue to reading her other poems. I'm just so excited.