Poem analysis - Potatoes
For the food-related poem, I have analyzed a poem called “Potatoes” by Linda Hogan. Before going deep into the poem, I will introduce the author. Linda Hogan is an American environmentalist who also writes stories and poems. Potatoes - Linda Hogan This is the month of warm days and a spirit of ice that breathes in the dark, the month we dig potatoes small as a child's fist. Under soil, light skins and lifeline to leaves and sun. It is the way this daughter stands beside me in close faith that I am warm that makes me remember so many years of the same work preparing for the quiet winter, old women bent with children in dusty fields. All summer the potatoes have grown in silence, gentle, moving stones away. And my daughter has changed this way. So many things to say to her but our worlds are not the same. I am the leaves, above ground in the sun and she is small, dark, clinging to buried roots, holding tight to leaves. In one day of digging the earth there is communion of thi...
