Summary Of Poetry Is Known As The World's Worst Weed By Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang takes an interesting approach to addressing different topics, whether it is about a person or about another poem. The title she chose for this book, Salvinia Molesta, “Is known as the world’s worst weed”, and it grows rapidly, “Eventually becoming a continuous green mat over the water surface” (74). It alludes to the poems that the book contains, releasing tragedies she articulates into poems. Opening the book the reader is greeted by a quote, by Virginia Woolf, it is her explanation about how in the world there is both the good and the bad. Chang creates a book of poetry that does not follow a traditional format, but instead flows in it’s own way and talks about deep topics. In Part I of her book she addresses the effects
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The topics which she addresses in each poem differ from one another, but all deal with the subjects that fall under the category love. Again with the intimate approach, the speaker tells how he has found a woman that will do for the purpose all women do of being submissive. The poems shows the greedy side of love in which the person only wants to benefit themselves and has no care for the other person. Chang’s decision to write this poem in couplets makes each statement a harsher tone. Changing things up again Chang decides to switch between writing in couplets and between free verse, all depending on the speed she would like the reader to go. When she wants the reader to just observe people she writes in free verse creating the thick stanzas, and when she wants the reader to be in a dream like trance she writes in couplets. Again highlighting the number seven she writes a poem, Seven Infidelities, and it is spaced into seven different stanzas. Noticing the emphasis on the number seven it reaches to what some may call “perfection”, because of God finishing everything on the seventh week/day (express.co.uk). In a cryptic way it may mean the perfectness of the dialogue of the infidelities, and relating back to Part I the “perfection” (in Hitler’s eyes) the Holocaust. Having the topic of the distrust in love does well with the transition into Part III of the book which talks about the corruptness in the world and the defeated
The topics which she addresses in each poem differ from one another, but all deal with the subjects that fall under the category love. Again with the intimate approach, the speaker tells how he has found a woman that will do for the purpose all women do of being submissive. The poems shows the greedy side of love in which the person only wants to benefit themselves and has no care for the other person. Chang’s decision to write this poem in couplets makes each statement a harsher tone. Changing things up again Chang decides to switch between writing in couplets and between free verse, all depending on the speed she would like the reader to go. When she wants the reader to just observe people she writes in free verse creating the thick stanzas, and when she wants the reader to be in a dream like trance she writes in couplets. Again highlighting the number seven she writes a poem, Seven Infidelities, and it is spaced into seven different stanzas. Noticing the emphasis on the number seven it reaches to what some may call “perfection”, because of God finishing everything on the seventh week/day (express.co.uk). In a cryptic way it may mean the perfectness of the dialogue of the infidelities, and relating back to Part I the “perfection” (in Hitler’s eyes) the Holocaust. Having the topic of the distrust in love does well with the transition into Part III of the book which talks about the corruptness in the world and the defeated