Basically it’s an discussion essay. The discussion we have to write about is what is the mood of the poem you are analyzing, and why is the mood important? The poem that I pick The Victims by Sharon Olds. Here it is…When Mother divorced you, we were glad. She took it andtook it in silence, all those years and thenkicked you out, suddenly, and herkids loved it. Then you were fired, and wegrinned inside, the way people grinned whenNixon’s helicopter lifted off the SouthLawn for the last time. We were tickledto think of your office taken away,your secretaries taken away,your lunches with three double bourbons,your pencils, your reams of paper. Would they take yoursuits back, too, those darkcarcasses hung in your closet, and the blacknoses of your shoes with their large pores?She had taught us to take it, to hate you and take ituntil we pricked with her for yourannihilation, Father. Now Ipass the bums in doorways, the whiteslugs of their bodies gleaming through slits in theirsuits of compressed silt, the stainedflippers of their hands, the underwaterfire of their eyes, ships gone down with thelanterns lit, and I wonder who took it andtook it from them in silence until they hadgiven it all away and had nothingleft but this.
