Question-O-Rama - Poetry Blog 5 (Edward)

"O I have killed my hawk so good, Mother, Mother, O I have killed my hawk so good, And I had no more but he, O."

~ Anonymous, Edward


For my final poetry blog, I thought I would write something consisting of only questions.

Is the hawk a metaphor?
Does he get some kind of sick masochism out of killing his hawk "so good?"
If he "had no more" but his hawk, why would he kill it?
Wouldn't he have learned his lesson after he killed the hawk? Did he have to go kill the horse?
Why did he kill his father?
Did he really kill his father, or is that a metaphor?
Why does he kill so many things/people?
Is he really sailing away to do penance, or is he running from all the murder he should be charged with?
How would sailing away be penance?
Why would he just let his house fall apart? Does he think he won't ever come back?
What kind of person lets his wife/children starve and thinks "Hmmm, they can just beg on the streets until they rot away into a desperate, bitter nothing and I have the pleasure of knowing it was all my fault!" ?
Why does he hate his mom?
Hasn't his mom been helping him with his problems all this time?
Why would he suddenly turn on her?
But why did he turn on everyone else in his family?
Why didn't his mom slap him after he talked to her like that? (If I cursed my mom to hell, I might get one to the face)
Why does he think his mom had cursed him through her counsels?
Could she not just unintentionally give really bad advice?
WHY IS EDWARD SUCH A JERK??

They're Coo Coo for Coco Puffs... (Chapter 19/ Pages 218-236)

"As soon as I said this - as soon as I mentioned Madame - I realised I'd made a mistake. Ruth looked up at me and I saw something like triumph flash across her face. You see it in films sometimes, when one person's pointing a gun at another person, and the one with the gun's making the other one do all kinds of things. Then suddenly there's a mistake, a tussle, and the gun's with the second person. And the second person looks at the first person with a gleam, a kind of can't-believe-my-luck expression that promises all kinds of vengeance."

~ Never Let Me Go, page 231

Okay, I've decided that it's not just Ruth who is crazy. Kathy has some problems in the brain area, too, apparently. Everything that happens between these two seems to be taken so seriously. This whole paragraph above just proves exactly what I'm trying to say - Kathy thinks that their fights are so extreme it's like holding a gun to the other's head? That's a  little extreme! I don't know about you, but my friends and I never fight like this.  We occasionally have little things, and maybe one or two big fights have ever come up, but it's never been such a power struggle like Kathy and Ruth's relationship is. I'm really questioning why they are still friends after all this time of just trying to make each other feel horrible, and even after a long time period spent away from each other! You really think they'd be over it by now. Plus, it turned out to not even be a big deal because Ruth was just trying to reunite Tommy and Kathy. I tell you, these two drive me nuts.