Summary Of At The Garage

After the lecture by Tara Bergin, I had different interpretations about many of her poems. The poems that truly caught my eye were “At the Garage,” “Talking to Anne-Marie after the American Election,” and “This is Yarrow.” Before the lecture, I had already read the poems and thought I understood what her poetry was about but after her explaining my comprehension had changed. When I first read “At the Garage,” I automatically knew that the poem was about an attraction that the girl had towards the mechanic that was fixing her car. She seemed to like the dirt that came from his work because she says “it’s his hands — so thickly black with engine oil, so hard-working, and in such high demand.” I think that the speaker thought she was in love with the mechanic, but I believe she was just in love with the idea of him. Also, the speaker was extremely jealous of the girls that were on the calendar because she thought that dirty girls were his type and she knew that she wasn’t like that. In addition to “At the Garage,” I found this poem to be very hyperbolic because of how over exaggerated it was. I re-read this poem many of times and I continued to believe that Bergin wrote this from a past
“Talking to Anne-Marie after the American Election” is definitely a free-verse poem because of the breathing of it. Very little breath is required reading it and there is a lot of space left. After reading the poem a few times, my thoughts were that it was about a girl named Anne-Marie who was trying to re-imagine herself. She wanted to move to Texas because she knew if she moved she could start over and be known as just Anne. The way I read the poem shows the anxiety and nervousness of Anne-Marie and I got that same feeling while Bergin read the poem during the