spontaneous me response

Briana Weems
Spontaneous Me response
Poems “From Children Of Adam” are passionate poems about romance and love. They also have some sorrow and pain involved with them. Most of these poems have a deeper meaning to show that sometimes you can’t always have what you want, and those things can be the things that you want and look forward to the most in life. For instance like true love or having kids or just truly living out your complete destiny and figuring out what God put you on this earth for, which can be a really hard thing to do in life. The author of “Spontaneous Me,” talks about being with a woman and how it makes him feel after she leaves and they are done. He talks about how he yearns for her body and wants her to be there with him. He also talks about how he wants a son to carry on his legacy but all he can produce is girls.
At the beginning of the poem he paints a vivid picture with his words. He talks about a fall day and he describes it with bright words like “loving, happy, friend” and he uses fall colors like “red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green.” He is trying to get the reader to in vision what he is talking about and see it without even closing their eyes. He also talks about the how the grass is rich in color and touch and how the pebble stones are all around and the apples are bright red and gorgeous. He is talking about his favorite place to sit down and write his poems and it is somewhere where he can concentrate the most. However this is not the true topic of his poem. The true meaning he is trying to get to is how poems should be written and how you should go to a place where you are most comfortable at to do so.
In the next paragraph of the poem he talks about how even masculine men he can write poems about love and they mean something. He then continues on talking about him and a woman being together. He describes how he is able to touch and feel her and how she is so close to him that he is able to smell her hair and skin. He also talks about the way her body is made and how gorgeous it is and how it looks to him and makes him feels. He compares her to his dreams because she is something he could only dream about and he never thought he could actually have someone like her in his life for real.
He then uses pathos afterwards to describe when she leaves how he feels. He feels sort of empty and like something is missing when she is not around him. He yearns for her body and wants her to come back because he likes the way it feels when the two of them are together. He also talks about how he can only “lie willing and naked,” until she returns because things are just not the same when she is not around. He continues to talk about how his heart beats fast when she is not around because he is missing her and he can’t really concentrate or write anything else without her around to be his muse.
When she finally returns he feels excited and so is his body to have her back with him. Every part of his body physically and mentally missed her and he can’t help but show it to her. And they have to girls together but he is not completely satisfied with his life yet. He wants boys to carry on his legacy but all that he can produce is girls, which saddens him. However at the end he basically says that he realizes he can’t have everything in life that he wants and comes to terms with those things and he will just put them in God’s hands. If they were meant for him to have them he would and he refuses to continue to worry himself about them. He decides to be grateful for the things he does have and enjoy life.