Ever read something and realizing how it did not really make sense? I am sure almost everyone has read something and either felt lost or confused on what was read. Lorine can be confusing to a few readers. One poem that confused me was Watching dancers on skates.
Throughout the poem a few things are addressed in such a short poem. She first states how "Ten thousand women and I the only one in boots" It explains how she is more of an outsider just by her saying she is the only one in boots. It does not really state if she is more lonely or okay with being different and being her own person. She then goes into talking about the Life's Dance. She says "they meet he holds her leg up" by her saying this can mean a few different things to people. "He holds her leg up" I do not really understand the meaning behind why she would have said something like that out of all the skating moves there are. Is she trying to say that the women trusts the man holding her? How she is not very good at skating compared to everyone else because she may not be able to get her leg that high? While reading that statement so many things can run through a readers head on what exactly she was trying to explain.
Lorine poem writing may have made sense to her when she wrote the poems and maybe the whole time she just wanted her readers to think while reading what she thought. At times it is very hard to understand what exactly what she was trying to get across. Her writing diffidently makes readers think.
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