Blog#3

  I choose to write about Muck-Clump by Mark Halliday. This poem is about a man's morning with his daughter and wife. He feels like his wife thinks he does not contribute and calls himself driftwood on the sands of time because he doesnt feel aspirated by her. He then starts to go over in his head how he will get back at his wife for correcting the amount of cereal he has poured when his daughter doesnt finish it all and how good he will feel about it. Then when proved wrong again he feels like he must be mature about it because after all he would like to think that is what he is. I feel like the speaker is also trying to show us that how we view ourselves and what we contribute is shaped by what others do like the wife correcting the amount of cereal takes away from the fact the man has tried to help in busy morning. It is very true in my life that if what i do for someone is not taken like i expect i feel like i've not even tried to help at all.