Practical Criticism

You fit into me

You fit into me

like a hook into an eye

A fish hook 

An open eye.

Questions

1.- What is the relationship between the title and the rest of the poem?

-The title let us know the main topic or theme of the poem, "you fit into me". Reading only  title I thought that was about that someone fits the persona, but when I read the whole poem I understand the real meaning.

2.- What words, if any, need to be defined?

-Hook and a Eye:  A latch consisting of a hook that is inserted in a screw eye.

3.- What relations do you see among any words in the poem?

-A relation between the word "hook" and "eye", and the meaning of this relation, changes as the poem advances.

4.- What are the various connotative meaning of the words in the poem? Do you see various shades of meaning help establish relationships or patterns in the text?

-As I said before, the meaning of the poem changes as the poem advances. First it refer about the "hook and eye" as something related to our clothes, but then it refers to a hook (fishing) and a real human eye.

 5.- What symbols, images or figures of speech are used? What is the relationship between them?

-We can see irony when in the 2 final verse of the poem, the meaning change in a considerable way.

Melancholy

6.- What elements of rhyme, meter or pattern can you discuss?

-This poem is a Free Verse poem, that means that don´t have rhyme.

7.- What is the tone of the poem?

-Maybe sadness,melancholy, fury.

8.- From what point of view is the content of the poem being told?

-From the point of view of a person that ensures that somebody belongs to him (in love). Also taking the meaning of the 1 and 2 verse, the persona established that they are right for each other, as a "hook and eye"

9.- What tensions, ambiguities or paradoxes arise within the poem?

-The words "Hook and Eye" change their meanings as the poem advances, a clear case of ambiguity. First the Hook and Eye refers to a men in love, but then it talk about the suffering that make to put a hook in your eye, referring to the pain that or delusion that love can make.

10.- What do you believe the chief paradox or irony is in the text?

-Express the suffering, sadness and fury of a person that have been betrayed by love.

11.-How do all of the elements of the poem support and develop the primary paradox or irony?

-In this case, the irony is supported by the ambiguity of the words "hook" and "eye", that let to express the ideas of the persona in ambiguous way.