Millenium Bedroom Furniture

I have to read a poem in class an analyze it but the poem is completely hard to understand. I read it so many times. Could someone maybe give me an idea of what the poem is about and maybe lists some literary devices? Thanks to those who can help.

Domestic Mysticsm

In thrice 10,000 seasons, I will come back to this world
In a white cotton dress. Kingdom of After My Own Heart.
Kingdom of Fragile. Kingdom of Dwarves. When I
come home,
Teacups will quiver in their Dresden saucers, pentatonic
chimes
Will move in wind. A covey of alley cats will swarm on the
side
Porch & perch there, omens of warm blood, portents with
quickened
Heartbeats you will feel against your ankles as you pass
through.

After the first millenium, we were supposed to die out.
You had your face pressed up against the coarse dyed velvet
Of the curtain, always looking out for your own
transmigration:
What colors you would wear, what kind of jewel,
How it would be cold, if your legs would be tied down,
If there would be wandering tribes of minstrels
Following with woodwinds in your every step.

This work of mine, the kind of work which takes no arms
to do,
Is least noble of all. It's peopled by Wizards, the Forlorn,
The Awkward, the Blinkers, the Spoon-Fingered, Agnostic
Lispers,
Stutterers of Prayer, the Closet Weepers, the Flatulent,
The Charlatans. I am one of those. In January, the month
the owls
Nest in, I am a witness & a small thing altogether. The
Kingdom
Of Ingratitude. Kingdom of Lies. Kingdom of How Dare I.

I go on dropping words like little pink fish eggs, unawares,
slightly
Illiterate, often on the mark. Waiting for the clear whoosh
Of fluid to descend & cover them. A train like a silver
Russian love pill for the sick at heart passes
By my bedroom window in the night at the speed of mirage.
In the next millenium, I will be middle-aged. I do not do well
In the marrow of things. Kingdom of Trick. Kingdom
of Drug.

In a lung-shaped suburb of Virginia, my sister will be
childless
Inside the ice storm, forcing the narcissus. We will send
Each other valentines. The radio blowing out
Vaughan Williams on the highway's purple moor.
At nine o'clock, we will put away our sewing to speak
Of lofty things while, in the pantry, little plants will nudge
Their frail tips toward the light we made last century.

When I come home, the dwarves will be long
In their shadows & promiscuous. The alley cats will sneak
Inside, curl about the legs of furniture, close the skins
Inside their eyelids, sleep. Orchids will be intercrossed
& sturdy.
The sun will go down as I sit, thin armed, small breasted
In my cotton dress, poked with eyelet stitches, a little lace,
In the queer light left when a room snuffs out.

I draw a bath, enter the water as a god enters water:
Fertile, knowing, kind, surrounded by glass objects
Which could break easily if mishandled or ill-touched.
Everyone knows an unworshipped woman will betray you.
There is always that promise, I like that. Kingdom of Kinesis.
Kingdom of Benevolent. I will betray as a god betrays,
With tenderheartedness. I've got this mystic streak in me.

I take it to be a young girl, a little unpopular, on the verge of womanhood and all the mysteries that it brings, childbearing, sexuallity. But for now, she is dreaming of the day she is grown up.

Literary devices list: Its up to you to figure out which is being represented.
Allegory - a symbolic representation
i.e. The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.
Alliteration - the repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row.
i.e. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Alliteration Lesson Plans and Resources
Allusion – A reference to a famous person or event in life or literature.
i.e. She is as pretty as the Mona Lisa.
Allusion in Prose and Poetry
Analogy - the comparison of two pairs which have the same relationship.
i.e. shoe is to foot as tire is to wheel
What's an Analogy?
Assonance - the repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence.
Climax - the turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. The climax represents the point of greatest tension in the work.
Foreshadowing - hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story
Hyperbole - a figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Metaphor - A comparison in which one thing is said to be another.
i.e. The cat's eyes were jewels, gleaming in the darkness.
Using Metaphors in Creative Writing
Metaphor Activity
Metaphor Writing Assignment
Metaphor Writing Rubric
Writing Your Own Metaphor Activity Sheet
Color Poems—Using the Five Senses to Guide Prewriting
As Slippery as an Eel: An Ocean Unit Exploring Simile and Metaphor
Similes and Metaphors Lesson
Onomatopoeia - the use of words to imitate the sounds they describe.
i.e. The burning wood crackled and hissed.
Onomatopoeia Help
Writing: Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron - putting two contradictory words together.
i.e. bittersweet, jumbo shrimp, and act naturally
Personification - is giving human qualities to animals or objects.
i.e. The daffodils nodded their yellow heads.
Writing: Personification
Personification Lesson Plans and Resources
Scholastic: A lesson plan on personification
Pun - A word is used which has two meanings at the same time, which results in humor.
Simile - figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though.
i.e. She floated in like a cloud.

2009-10-27 08:55:56 by Kasandra S.

apartment on the lower end of Lloyd George Avenue. Both bedrooms have double beds and wardrobes. Master bedroom has an en-suite. Kitchen has built ...

I have to read a poem in class an analyze it but the poem is completely hard to understand. I read it so many times. Could someone maybe give me an idea of what the poem is about and maybe lists some literary devices? Thanks to those who can help.

Domestic Mysticsm

In thrice 10,000 seasons, I will come back to this world
In a white cotton dress. Kingdom of After My Own Heart.
Kingdom of Fragile. Kingdom of Dwarves. When I
come home,
Teacups will quiver in their Dresden saucers, pentatonic
chimes
Will move in wind. A covey of alley cats will swarm on the
side
Porch & perch there, omens of warm blood, portents with
quickened
Heartbeats you will feel against your ankles as you pass
through.

After the first millenium, we were supposed to die out.
You had your face pressed up against the coarse dyed velvet
Of the curtain, always looking out for your own
transmigration:
What colors you would wear, what kind of jewel,
How it would be cold, if your legs would be tied down,
If there would be wandering tribes of minstrels
Following with woodwinds in your every step.

This work of mine, the kind of work which takes no arms
to do,
Is least noble of all. It's peopled by Wizards, the Forlorn,
The Awkward, the Blinkers, the Spoon-Fingered, Agnostic
Lispers,
Stutterers of Prayer, the Closet Weepers, the Flatulent,
The Charlatans. I am one of those. In January, the month
the owls
Nest in, I am a witness & a small thing altogether. The
Kingdom
Of Ingratitude. Kingdom of Lies. Kingdom of How Dare I.

I go on dropping words like little pink fish eggs, unawares,
slightly
Illiterate, often on the mark. Waiting for the clear whoosh
Of fluid to descend & cover them. A train like a silver
Russian love pill for the sick at heart passes
By my bedroom window in the night at the speed of mirage.
In the next millenium, I will be middle-aged. I do not do well
In the marrow of things. Kingdom of Trick. Kingdom
of Drug.

In a lung-shaped suburb of Virginia, my sister will be
childless
Inside the ice storm, forcing the narcissus. We will send
Each other valentines. The radio blowing out
Vaughan Williams on the highway's purple moor.
At nine o'clock, we will put away our sewing to speak
Of lofty things while, in the pantry, little plants will nudge
Their frail tips toward the light we made last century.

When I come home, the dwarves will be long
In their shadows & promiscuous. The alley cats will sneak
Inside, curl about the legs of furniture, close the skins
Inside their eyelids, sleep. Orchids will be intercrossed
& sturdy.
The sun will go down as I sit, thin armed, small breasted
In my cotton dress, poked with eyelet stitches, a little lace,
In the queer light left when a room snuffs out.

I draw a bath, enter the water as a god enters water:
Fertile, knowing, kind, surrounded by glass objects
Which could break easily if mishandled or ill-touched.
Everyone knows an unworshipped woman will betray you.
There is always that promise, I like that. Kingdom of Kinesis.
Kingdom of Benevolent. I will betray as a god betrays,
With tenderheartedness. I've got this mystic streak in me.

Wow, this is a very thick poem as to what they are saying, but this mystic is talking about all the lives that he will be affecting in one way or another

2009-10-27 08:55:56 by Kasandra S.

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