My interpretation of this poem is at first I found it weird that a person would actually write about an onion. The word choice was very unique and as the poem continued I found that the onion had a deeper meaning to the author than I have ever even known or felt about an onion.
When asked to then pick a line from the poem this is the line I chose...
" For the sake of others, disappear.."
I was confused as to who was disappearing, was it the onion.. the person eating the onion.. the author or who?
After speaking with my partner we came to the conclusion that this poem did in fact have a higher meaning than we saw at first read.
I then wrote again that I saw now that those who used onions for a worship object was very important unlike what it was to me. You could pull apart the pieces of this poem just as you can pull a part the pieces of the onion and have it be different pieces that shape your life. You can pull the pieces and cut them up and pull them apart but they are still pieces in your life.
I enjoyed reading this poem in class, with all the different discussions and parts to it. I believe that this helped me better understand the poem. I love poetry but a lot of the times it is hard for me to understand exactly what the author is saying. Getting everyone else's opinions and reading aloud the poem multiple times, and then having the concluding activity made me di sect the poem which I had never done before. It helped me look at it in a totally different way, and help me understand its meaning.
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