hi fellow english ppl!
i'm at my wits end with the following poem that i'm meant to be comparing with 2 others for my coursework assignment and thought you clever people might be able to help me!
Basically i'm completly stuck on this whole metaphor of bread and honey and the idea of this person going to a 'hell'. All i can assume is that bread and honey stand for something like a relationship or a familar aspect of home that she is leaving behind? Just something with this poem isnt clicking. The other 2 poems i'm comparing it with seem to be about love - so maybe this is too?
Anyone with ANY ideas on the poem would be much appreciated just to get me going in the right direction! thank you so much TSR peeps! Happy englishing!
My dreams, my works, must wait till after hell - Gwendolyn Brooks
I hold my honey and I store my bread
In little jars and cabinets of my will.
I label clearly, and each latch and lid
I bid. Be firm till I return from hell.
I am very hungry, I am incomplete.
And none can tell when I may dine again.
No man can give me any word but Wait,
The puny light. I keep eyes pointed in;
Hoping that, when the devil days of my hurt
Drag out to their last dregs and I resume
On such legs as are left me, in such heart
As i can manage, remember to go home,
My taste will not have turned insensitive
To Honey and bread old purity could love.