Monday, March 21, 2011

Villanelle Poetry Responce/I am to tierd to come up with a cleaver alternate title and won't even both to capitolize this one

Virginia Byde Pacetti
AP English IV
Mrs. Jernigan
21 March 2011
Poetry Response #2 Fourth Quarter
David Trinidad’s “Chatty Cathy Villanelle” is nostalgic in a way that shows the pithiness of childhood entertainment. Yet as a man wrote this villanelle about the classic doll, it most likely exists in a sarcastic since, possibly in response to a female relative’s incessant pleasure from the most annoying thing on the planet. Yet he juxtaposes the shallowness of lines about tea parties and pretending to play house with the repetition of the questions “When you grow up, what will you do?/I’m Chatty Cathy. Who are you?”. There is more brevity in such questions as every girl as she grows older contemplates who she is and how she fits into the world as she leaves the land of make believe behind.
I for one was never fond of talking dolls (they kind of creeped my mom out I think) and I felt kept me from total control over the stories my dolls entered. But I had a talking Build-a-Bear. Of course since my Build-a-Bear Panda was not nearly as famous or popular as Little Miss Chatty, when my friends say, “can you take me home?” And I interject, using my best ‘tour guide Barbie voice,’ “Please take me home; please pick me up,” which are Sony the Panda’s favorite phrases people often stare at me. Trinidad excels in imitating the annoying screechy sound of talking toys in the expressions of Chatty Cathy recalling memories that may bring a wave of glowing remembrance or compulsive irritation.

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