Poetry Analysis of Going Blind by Rainer Maria Wilke

I chose the poetry Going Blind by Rainer Maria Wilke. Essentially, the poem outlines an observers thoughts about a lady friend at a party who is blind. My initial heart during the first hardly a(prenominal) lines was pity for the blind girl, as the poem talks about her hesitant smile and how she holds her cup differently than everyone else because she cant see them. She tries to heed along, laughs when cued, is left behind as partygoers start to wander. besides then the feeling changes during the last line and another feeling emerges, one of sparked curiosity and a slight shift of perspective.Leading up to that, the observer viewed the girl almost as weak and incapable, left of out the evenings events. She pitied the vacant stare and the slow movements. But then observer catches a glimpse of something else, a glimmer of deeper human race behind the milky look. The focus shifts to less of a judgement towards this unheard-of girl towards herself and a place of self-awareness. She realizes that everything may not be as her first glance may have suggested.Going Blind is written in a loose rhyme scheme that contributes to the relatable yet mysterious shade of the poem. The punctuation is not dissimilar to prose, but the sixteen lines in quatrain sorting are cut off to create the rhyme, which is a, b, b, a. I feel this poem appealed more to the sight, as the description given painted, for me, a clear come across of the room full of people, the way she sat with her tea, how the guests ambled from room to room, the way her eye looked.As far as metaphorical phrases go, the blind girls eyes were compared to a lit pond, and her demeanor was compared to a nervous performers. The authorship of Going Blind, from my perspective, is the complexity and the area of unknown within each white face we see. We can think we have someone figured out, when in reality, there is more than meets the eye, and specifically, there is more to the character of this poem than her disability.