Sign Inventory 2, Week 2

Sign inventory of Janey's improv' work from course text. (p. 21)

• Author uses specific and repetitive language/words such as "cage", "bulb", "radience", "light", "fires" etc..
• The first half of the poem is working through one long sentence, while the latter half is comprised of several, more abrupt sentences. 
• The author also plays on the idea of entrapment, and the act of something being contained: "radiance trapped by the bulb, / radiance trapped inside the tulip bulb I bury."
• The poem also establishes a sense of close relation using words like "we", "I", and "my", while also creating distance and separation when saying things such as, "The fires folding [their] arms at dusk, / I hear the crackle of [distant] fires."
• Within the poem, the author also works well with minded her P's and Q's. The incorporation of physical senses, proper nouns, qualities, and quantities. 
• The setting also moves from a very "private domestic interior" (the notion of being entrapped in something very singular), to the a "public domestic exterior (outside, acknowledging/ drawing attention to the wide expanse of the environment "dusk, distant fires, cracks, black rivers, stars" etc..