Week 11 Analysis: "California 13"


In this poem California 13 as I was reading it it seems to me that the author was trying to put real theme of freedom  and adventure. The author had a way with words that kind of took you along for the ride while you were reading along. It said: “Who will take your place who will take your place up there the Berkeley trees Beyond The Grand Hotel were upon the Mountain Crest California 13 above Oakland running with the silver gleam of the day and distant mountain range across the waters heading for LA” (Henderson). It seems here as if the author is taking us for a car ride. It's as if someone became free and is now traveling along the road to find where they belong in this world. In the reading there was a lot of repetition that was given and I feel as it did puts more emphasis on the text because then as the reader is reading the feel a lot more. Me personally I think that when an author puts repetition in there specifically wanting the reader to understand that main part or parts. As if there is a specific meaning that is meant to be  portrayed. For example in the court above it says “ Who will take your place who will take your place”(Henderson). To be honest I feel as if this quote just saying as you go on this adventure you will need to find a spot for yourself but there will always be someone else to take your place. Who will that be? Nobody knows. I also feel as if the author maybe saying there could be more of (you) that are going through the same thing and traveling the same road as you. Those are just too different viewpoints on how the author may have wanted to portray that part of the text. I wonder who will take my place.

Citation: Henderson "California 13" (120)

Comments

  1. AnonymousApril 20, 2019 at 4:30 PM

    Hi, Alesha!
    I have not read this poem, I usually don't like poems, but I enjoyed reading your analysis.
    I agree with you when you say that the authors put repetition to emphasize something. I just got a little bit confused when you said that "as you go on this adventure you will need to find a spot for yourself but there will always be someone else to take your place." What did you mean by that? I found it an interesting comment, but I couldn't figure out the meaning...

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  2. AnthonyApril 21, 2019 at 8:29 PM

    Alesha

    I think you did a good job recognizing the theme of freedom in Henderson's poem. It seems that the theme of all good travel poems is freedom and discovery. The ability to move from place to place and experience different sights is a freedom we take for granted. Not all the people of the world experience the freedom of being able to travel anywhere they want to as do we Americans. Travel has been a big part of the black experience. The ability to travel/escape the "Jim Crow" south, for example, is a big part of the American Black freedom movement and I think Henderson is expressing that type of freedom.

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