Explication Of The Poem 'Goodbye, New York'
This is a poem written in fourteen stanzas with two lines in each stanza to highlight the importance of remembering what you have left behind in a place. “Goodbye, New York” is about the mourning of the narrators departure from the big city. It is always best to remember the good when you are leaving a place that way you have a happy memory to look back on.
What caught my attention about the writing of the poem was the simplistic use of rhyming couplets to narrow in on an aspect that will be nothing more than a reminiscence to look back on. To elaborate, the poem begins with the referencing New York as the “big fat city [she] called hometown” this first statement makes it apparent that New York is where the narrator grew up and called home
What caught my attention about the writing of the poem was the simplistic use of rhyming couplets to narrow in on an aspect that will be nothing more than a reminiscence to look back on. To elaborate, the poem begins with the referencing New York as the “big fat city [she] called hometown” this first statement makes it apparent that New York is where the narrator grew up and called home