Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape Transformation Quotes Page 1
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| Quote #1 The first of the undecoded messages read: "Popeye sits in thunder, |
The "emergence" of a Chinese puzzle called a tangram is the first transformation in the poem. The image of a "country" seems almost to come in through the window, past the curtains. The poem is like a half-completed transformation, because the messages are never decoded, the puzzle never solved.
| Quote #2 The apartment |
This sentence marks the start of the middle section of the poem, when all the characters begin to voice their gripes and dissatisfactions. Once the site of a pleasant vacation, the apartment becomes cramped and thunder-filled.
| Quote #3 "Henceforth shall Popeye's apartment |
Swee'pea's note announces – out of the blue – that things will never be the same. Thunder and tears have failed to achieve something, and now the apartment is a space that people can only "remember." It doesn't matter what state the apartment is in anymore.
