The World's Greatest Tricycle-Rider '

The poems written by CK Williams confused me the most. I interpreted the poem The Hard Part as something good turning into something bad between two people, but I did not understand why or how their relationship was turning from good to bad. I believe it may have been a sour relationship and now the narrator of the poem would like to go back to old times. The poem brought up obscure terms such as “the white bear and the lawyer” which were locking up the narrator’s house. I understood how a lawyer could be locking up a house, but not a white bear; I did not understand the symbolism of the white bear. I thought that the poem The World’s Greatest Tricycle-Rider was about love and how the narrator was very free to give love. I did not understand why the narrator says that he or she has kept something from the tricycle rider or how growing older has stopped the tricycle-rider

The poem haggles between innocent and immoral, but I viewed it in a more immoral way. For instance, the narrator tells of a box which holds a Colt .45, which was given to the narrator by his father to open when the boy needed his father the most. This could be viewed as protection from his father, or something more sinister, such as suicide or an inference that the narrator is in danger. For this poem, I researched into the author because it appeared as if the author saw himself as the young boy. I found that the author is gay and had a difficult and almost no relationship with his father when he was growing up. The introduction to Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts was interesting because it emphasized how writers writing about other works should go beyond what is blantly written by the author and interpret the piece in their own way. Joseph Harris, the author, begins to explain the importance of a writer “to say something new and say it well”, which is different from what many of my past English teachers would tell me how to