Original poem reprinted online here: "A Prisoner of Things" by Alan Michael Parker Originally read: December 27, 2012 More information about the Poet: Alan Michael Parker The one thing I didn't write down in my notes was " anthropomorphism ." It's where things are given human attributes. So the "things" here are given dialogue. The interesting thing about the poem is how the anthropomorphized items have a "goal" and the speaker seems to be laying about. For example, the opening lines, "If only this novel were trashier: / if only the hour were true" I think to believe the colon is used as a syntactical deductive (I don't know what colons are used for off the top of my head except the obvious) where there's a logical consequence. If the novel was trashier then the hour would be true. There's this waiting (maybe procrastination period). So the speaker projects goals onto things. And with every goal there's so...
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