https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t After reading the poem twice, write your intial reaction and thoughts on the poem. en-us 2020-03-18 21:43:40 UTC 2025-10-06 02:37:57 UTC hello@padlet.com wreitz https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/470267048 Was with the pudgy hands of a thirteen-year-old that I took the marble of his head just barely balanced on his reedy neck and with the brute tutelage of years fighting the neighbor kids and too the lightning of my father's stiff palm I leaned the boy's head full force into the rattly pane of glass on the school bus and did so with the eagle of justice screaming in my ear as he always does for the irate and stupid I made the window sing and bend and the skinny boy too whose eyes grew to lakes lit by mortar fire bleating with his glasses crooked I'm not an animal walking in place on the green vinyl seat looking far away and me watching him and probably almost smiling at the song and dance I made of the weak and skinny boy who towering above me became even smaller and bizarre and birdlike pinned and beating his wings frantically against his cage and me probably almost smiling as is the way of the stupid and cruel watching the weak and small and innocent not getting away.

]]> 2020-03-23 02:27:55 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/470267048 cdomusiewicz https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471013897 This is a story about how Ross Gay beat a kid up on the bus. At first I thought he might have killed the boy, but that was not the case. The boy might have been bullying him, that why "the eagle of justice" was screaming in his ear. Ross Gay describes the boy as "...the weak and skinny boy who towering above me..." meaning that Ross Gay was probably picked on by this kid. I wouldn't describe this poem as a poem of triumph however because although sometimes the tone is triumphant I also percieved it as being a little regretful. ]]> 2020-03-23 14:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471013897 jboyd110 https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471016709 This poem is a story about ho the author beat up a kid on the bus. I think that he wrote the poem as a sort of apology for what he did. Even though he didn't know where the kid is now, he wanted to get the story out there and wanted people to know. The poems title is "For Some Slight I Can't Quite Recall", I think that this is the title because the author does not remember why he beat up the kid, he just remembers that he did it.]]> 2020-03-23 14:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471016709 rshah61 https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471038873 I believe that this poem tells a story of a kid beating up someone who used to intimidate him, possibly a bully. He is unable to remember why he hurt the victim, but he knows it gave him satisfaction when he did it. He referred to the victim as a skinny boy towering above him now becoming smaller and more bizarre, leading me to believe he stood up for himself against a bully using violent tactics. I don't think he did the right thing, and given the inability to remember his motivation for the assault, the kid probably doesn't believe he did the right thing either.]]> 2020-03-23 14:24:29 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471038873 arimal12 https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471041160 This poem tells the story of the narrator, whom I believe to be Ross Gay, beating up a kid on the school bus, who based on the line "...boy who towering above me . The diction "eagle of justice/screaming in my ear" leads me to believe that his actions must have, at the least, be justified within himself at the time, however, the tone set at the end of the poem and the fact that Ross Gay even wrote this poem infers that he feels regret or remorse from these actions. ]]> 2020-03-23 14:25:53 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471041160 esubonikaufman https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471330940 This poem seemed to be about the narrator/author Ross Gay beating up a child on the school bus. However, Gay implies that at one point he hadn't been so powerful over the skinny boy: " I made of the weak and skinny boy who towering above me" The usage of the term towering above me demonstrates that this boy had power over Gay before. Towards the end of the poem when it said "way of the stupid and cruel watching the weak and small and innocent not getting away." The narrator almost feels empathy and remorse for the boy and his own actions. Overall my main take away from the poem was that getting revenge over the boy did not necessarily make Ross feel better which seems to demonstrate the "two wrongs don't make a right" message.

]]> 2020-03-23 16:54:08 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471330940 nazhar1 https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471352073 At first, I noticed the poem was filled with imagery so the reader could portray the scene and thoughts going on in the poet's mind while he was writing this.  I find it quite interesting that the poem takes place in a short amount of time leading up to when the poet describes the scene of what he did to the boy. However, the poet also uses the phrase of "with the eagle of justice screaming in my ear as he always does" to imply that his actions necessarily weren't the right thing to do, almost like his conscience trying to give a final warning. This phrase and using an eagle to describe what just behavior looks like connects to the imagery near the end of the poem relating the boy to a ]]> 2020-03-23 17:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471352073 tmathew3 https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471756464 This poem is about Ross Gay the beating a kid up on the bus I think at the time he believes that his actions were just because he says " the eagle of justice screaming in my ear as he always does" I also think that he believes that being condescending makes him free as the person he's beating up is said to be in a cage trapped and Ross was the towering figure above him "pinned and beating his wings frantically" as reflects on this situation he realizes that his actions were not smart and they made him feel regretful. It is almost comparing the eagle which is a pretty strong bird to the weak fragile birds, the eagle also represents freedom to do what he thinks is right and not to listen to his mind now he realizes this was a wrong thing to do. ]]> 2020-03-23 21:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471756464 https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471885165 After reading the poem a few times to illustrate my thoughts, this poem seems to be about how the narrator (Ross Gay), beats up a kid who might have hurt him before. The ¨skinny boy¨ could have been a bully before as he states ¨I made of the weak and skinny boy who towering above me¨. Towards the end, it also seems as he tries to tell us how he isn´t able to recall why he did what he had done but he felt very secure and justified after he had done it.]]> 2020-03-24 00:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/juw33mgr8r7t/wish/471885165