I don't know about you, but I never was one to understand poetry. As much as it can sound beautiful, poetry can also be flabbergasting, confusing, complicated, subtle, misunderstood, and infuriating. Sometimes the language is not clear enough and sometimes the meaning is difficult to grasp. At least for me, I find it difficult to grasp the meaning. I tend to read too into it. And "Litany" is no exception. Filled with metaphors of humorous and thoughtful characteristics, I am still left confused at what the poem is getting at. If I had to ask six questions, they would be as follows:
1. What strategy was used to describe the relationship?
2. How do the metaphors fit into the relationship?
3. Could there be other tactics, such as over exaggeration, to describe the relationship?
4. Why were those particular metaphors used?
5. Is the relationship rocky like a boat floating in the ocean on good and bad days? Is this what can be assumed?
6. Did the metaphors originate already or were they made up? What could replace the some of the metaphors used to make it clearer?
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