In the poem, "Love, You Got me Good," Ross Gay mixes traditional terms of endearment with horrible scenes of death and war to show that love is hard and not always what it's cracked up to be. I think that my favorite line is "When I think of you / I see fire." I like that you read the line, "when I think of you," and believe that the next line will be something pleasant, but it ends up being the opposite.
I am also deciding to respond to "Isaac" because I found this poem to be confusing yet completely enthralling. I found it effective that Gay uses descriptions of animals in the first stanza and juxtaposes that with scenes of a father abusing his son in the second stanza. By the third stanza, I am clear that this poem is supposed to be about the Bible story, but the scenes depicted in the final stanza confuse me. I think that Gay is saying that Isaac's brother rode on a horse and threatened to kill the father with an arrow if he killed Isaac. Therefore, this would mean that the father's lie is when he told Isaac that an angel sent from god told him to sacrifice his son. I have no idea if I am completely off base here, but I figured I'd give it a shot.
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