BLOG #2 cont.

B.

Simple thoughts/reactions to his journal

Snyder's journals from pages 24 through 33 show the episodes he has during his first time around Japan. It becomes obvious that he is in Japanese territory because he speaks a lot about Japanese culture, including Buddhist temples and Japanese plays. I noticed that Snyder's journals are becoming more like paragraphs because he doesn't use stanzas and lines as much as he did in his previous journals. But his improvement in structure doesn't make up for Snyder's perplexing and confusing language. I am still puzzled by his journals, which make it very hard to interpret his episodes.
With an overall idea of Gary Snyder, I have concluded that this man lives and breathes poetry with respect to his journals. Seeing that his journals are written for every day and also seeing the contents of the journals, I can tell that Snyder is constantly thinking about his poetry and honing his poetic skills.

Clear, supported thoughts/reactions to 1 or more poems

"Wave"

At a physical viewpoint, we can already see that the structure of the poem is coexistent with the poem's title; the poem takes on the shape of a wave. As we read, we can understand that the poem compares a wave with a woman, supposedly his wife, as seen on line seven, "wave           wife." Snyder says that the waves are like his woman, being that they are both "'veiled; vibrating; [and] vague.'" The scene that he describes is a cold scene, so his wife is "vibrating," or shivering. The line, "Each inch rippld, every grain a wave," shows that Snyder believes the waves are the foundation of the sea. Therefore, he is saying that a woman is also the center and foundation of his "mind." From this poem, we can grasp Snyder's true love and need for his wife, since she is the center of his happiness and the one who "[catches him] and fling[s him] wide."

C.

The answer is now.
The past is now
The future is typing.
thinking.
glancing.
buttons.
screen.

Black keys. white letters.
Air conditioner shivers.
Thinking.

The answer is always
typing.