"Today"
Written by Billy Collins. If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb, a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies seemed so etched in sunlight
that you felt like taking a hammer to the glass paperweight
on the living room end table, releasing the inhabitants
from their snow-covered cottage so they could walk out,
holding hands and squinting into this larger dome of blue and white,
well, today is just that kind of day. We read this poem this weekend for homework in English.
It seems so simple but there is a deep meaning behind it.
but yeah... I interpreted it as there being two different worlds.
The person telling this story is helping everything else and himself break free.
For example, the bird in the canary cage.
Or the little people in the snowglobe on the end table.
Or even himself breaking out of the house into the world outside. I wish today was the kind of day where that was possible.
A day where we could just break free of all the wrongs we dont want.
A day where we could break through the things holding us back like a cage.
A day to be free. What does that word mean anyways? Freedom. I don't even know anymore.
It seems like its being taken away from us by force.
And not by terrorist filled countries; by our own government. I dont know. Oh well... I liked the poem
but it made me think too much about everything else going on in the world
and made me want a day like that where I could just break free of everything. Maybe thats what I need to do... Comment it.
Tell me your opinions, on mine or the poem.
I like discussing things like this. :]] | 
