Connor McInnis Blog 8

In "Student" Koozer starts off talking about a normal student in high school walking through the halls. I then goes into saying how he seems to be a motivated boy. He then "crawls out of the forth of a hangover and onto the sand of the future." Meaning that he has gotten through school and pass everything could have pulled him back and he is on his way to success. "With heavy hope, into the library." In 'Why I left Church" at first I was unsure about the true meaning to the poem. But after analyzing it in greater detail I came to the conclusion that it was about a boy that died and went to heaven. I say this because it says how the boy put on a space helmet for Sunday School, but the sister wouldn't him in until he took it off. But at that instant he rose from his chair and through the ceiling. He kept rising and rising "into the sky and beyond" And since this poem has religious theme in it, I put this and the boy rising "beyond the sky" as in he is going to heaven. An argument could be made that he could just be going into space because of the space helmet but I firmly believe that he went to heaven because he seemed to be at peace as he rose up and up.