Glass Mannequin Head
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poem metaphor and theme?
what are the metaphors and theme in this poem?
Day of the Bride by Joy Kogawa
The day of the bride dawns
Through layers of white plaster skin
And multi-sashed kimono
Head made huge by lacquered hair-
She is swept ashore in her glass bottle
White and tight as a folded paper message
Eyes hidden in a swirl of green boughs.
She moves like a mannequin
Manoeuvered by centuries ofceremony
Under the weight of speech and incantation
A wail ofpriests and watching families
Beside rows of low tables
With small triangles of paper
Congratulatory slits of squid and curls of seaweed.
Then kneeling at the bend of a fresh memory
She is discarded by her heavy day
And is plunged into the twentieth century
Tiny apartment daily stream
As a barely visible
Folded paper speck
thanks
this is a hard one ...
the (kinda weird) metaphor is that the kimono-bound, elaborate made-up bride (her face covered in white make-up like a geisha)
is compared to a message in a bottle, a mysterious sheet of paper "folded white and tight" and swept ashore (by the activity of the traditional japanese wedding)
this sheet of paper (drifted in) is then almost overshadowed by all the elaborate origami on the tables of the guests at the reception ...
and then after the hoopla and ceremony is all over .. the woman is discarded into her now-married life ... ignored like "a barely visible folded paper speck" ...
In other words, right before the wedding, she is framed like an elaborate and mysterious message in a bottle, a mysterious swathed and hidden creature of white skin and mystery ...
but then AFTER the wedding, she becomes just a wadded up and discarded sheet of paper ...
'cuz (I guess) Japanese guys are fuckers.
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