Fluorescence

         Fluorescence was a hard for me to read.  I had a hard time figuring what everything meant.   I feel that there were many different ways that these poems could have been taken.  In class on Thursday, we went over the sections in groups and looked at the language, structure, visual, content, and  etc. elements.  There were a couple things in this book of poems that stood out to me. 
          On some of the pages, there were very few words. The purpose of this could be looked at many different ways.  In class, we talked about how this could be pauses from the authors.  A great example would be on page five.  The only word on that page was "orange".  The page before was talking about an explosion and there was a break at the end of page four.  The last sentence of page four was, "There are no more mirrors and the light is".  I think that the word "orange" was for a dramatic effect and to show that this explosion was very big.  I feel that this one word on one page all by itself is a symbol.
           In section two, the poems did not have a title or an author by it.  I felt as if this was harder for me to understand because the titles make it easier for me to understand the meaning of the poem.  In some of the poems, the endings of the poems were left out.  A good example of this is on page 21.  The last sentence says, "Sometimes my hands hold tight, so that". There is no punctuation at the end of this sentence.  I take it as something went wrong, but I am not completely sure. 
          Overall, this book of poems is interesting. I just had a hard time comprehending it all.  The language was very incomplete. There was not much structure.  One of the themes is fear and negativity.  I feel that you would have to read this several times to completely understand it.