For this week, consider the following question in ~300 words; then respond to another student in approximately 100 words
Compare Barbara Rockman's "The New Farmers" and Sally Croft's "Home Baked Bread"--How are those two poems different in their representations of human sexuality? Requirements: Write in your own words, no plagiarism
consider the following question in ~300 words; then respond to another student in approximately 100 words ( I will provide one student’s post for you to reply after I submit my assignment )
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Sally Croft, "Home Baked Bread"
“Home-Baked Bread,” by Sally Croft
Nothing gives a household a greater sense of stability and common comfort than the aroma of cooling bread. Begin, if you like, with a loaf of whole wheat, which requires neither sifting nor kneading, and go on from there to move cunning triumphs. -The Joy of Cooking
What is it she is not saying?
Cunning triumphs. It rings
of insinuation. Step into my kitchen,
I have prepared a cunning triumph
for you. Spices and herbs
sealed in this porcelain jar,
a treasure of my great-aunt
who sat up past midnight
in her Massachusetts bedroom
when the moon was dark. Come,
rest your feet. I’ll make
you tea with honey and slices
of warm bread spread with peach butter.
I picked the fruit this morning
still fresh with dew. The fragrance
is seductive? I hoped you would say that.
See how the heat rises
when the bread opens. Come,
we’ll eat together, the small flakes
have scarcely any flavor. What cunning
triumphs we can discover in my upstairs room
where peach trees breathe their sweetness
beside the open window and
sun lies like honey on the floor.
Barbara Rockman, "The New Farmers" “The New Farmers,” by Barbara Rockman
In suburban backyards,
past usual bark and holler,
there is bleat and cluck.
One of the new farmers bikes to work.
One has given up meat. They suffer
sore joints and burnt brows,
refuse daily news, tune the radio
to all music all day, read dusty
Whitman and Blake. And though
covenants forbid a rooster,
they invoke don’t ask, don’t tell,
raise chickens behind latched gates,
nudge eggs from fat females
who puff and doze,
and make of morning
a romance. One will go in,
kiss his partner’s grizzled cheek,
whisk an omelette of chèvre and chives,
slice sun warm tomatoes and bread
kneaded in the dark. Long ago they
learned to tame the hip, curb the kiss
but this feast eaten from Adirondack chairs
facing sunrise, the misted hour, is a reprisal
of an old hymn to a land they refuse to not love,
country they dig their hands into
despite a litany of signs it will return
a spare and blemished harvest.
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