Please include the following:
-2-3 quotes you underlined or highlighted
1."seems a likely stopping-place for someone who's been driving, hard, away from failure."
I really like the hard, away from failure because it makes the allusion of a long skinny road that never ends. I know i've had moments where I have just wanted to get in my car and drive till all my frustration is out.
2." If i'm not over you by the time I get to Georgia, I'll be Alabama-bound."
I really liked this quote because one it was italicized to show some significance and it shows the kind of scene that the writer is writing about. Obviously they are in a smaller town in the local diner.
3."asks if the road's been good to them"
This really stood out to me because the "road" is being personified in a way that it could treat someone bad...but in reality this question is just really asking how was the drive.
4. "for how prepared I am, just now, to love this?"
I really liked how she ended with the question and how the poem was never in my opinion going in this direction.
-Sensory details that stood out to you as a reader.
The sensory detail Anne Caston uses when describing the waitress at the diner kinda shows what kind of town she is in. By saying " a nice enough voice for a women who looks like hell has pitched its tent, a time or two in her face." In this particular sentence Anne Caston is saying that her voice was actually good considering she was a "rough" looking lady.
In another situation Caston describes the atmosphere of the diner by saying " It's warm in here; comfortable and strange to sit, road-weary, raw, among the regulars who know each other's names, and hers and I am strangely comforted for having come." She uses the word warm for another meaning beside the temperature. She's really saying how friendly and welcoming every one is and how the atmosphere in the diner is very up bringing. She uses "road-weary" to tell the reader how tired she really is and raw as in she's tired of sitting. Where as in most cases writers who use "raw" mostly mean that something is bad or uncooked. She has many parts in her story that have a lot of sensory detail.
-Observations about the writer's style, with examples from the text
Anne Caston is a very descriptive writer who writes more about the surroundings then what is actually taking place. She starts off not saying where she's going, but instead she talks about the place by saying " where sown seed won't take root among weeds and wild thorns, ground where a righteous man might be set upon by thieves. Another time she talks about her surroundings in a very descriptive way is when she is observing her surroundings in the diner. She says " everything [is] in order, wiped and gleaming; this chipped formica table top, white paper napkins wrapped around mismatched silverware, two brown cups, upside down, the handles point east......and Tabasco." She writes about the little things like they really matter and have a significant meaning but in reality they are just apart of the setting of the diner and don't really mean anything.
-A thoughtful personal response to the content of the piece
I think Anne Caston is a very strong reader who knows how to point out of the little things that people don't notice. Not only did she point out the little things she also was very descriptive about them and made them have a meaning even though there was nothing really about them significant. I also really liked the beginning when she was saying she was driving away, hard, from failure. It really touched me because I always used to do that when I was home. I would get upset about something and always just take off. Driving around can really help you focus on whats really wrong and how to solve it.
-Any questions the piece raised for you as a reader
What was Anne Caston real purpose for this poem. I think there was something that she has experienced that led her to write about this. I really wonder what that exactly is.
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