Blog Entry 1

 Original Sin was a deep spiritual poem. When i first read it i was so confused with all the weird words and metaphors i thought the poem had to do with Robert Penn's grandfather death. The poem gave me a sense that the grandfather had past away and that although Roberts grandfather had past he could still feel the presence of his grandfathers ghost. Robert gave a lot of detail of what he felt in the poem for example he expressed noises he would here like whispers and how he seen shadows of a nodding head. Those examples led me to believe that it could be his grandfather's ghost made those noises and nodding his head. In the class discussion I learned that the poem wasn't exactly based on his grandfather's death but of his life's journeys and how he struggle as a poor kid who ended up in Harvard and becoming a professor. The poem also had to do with the death of his grandfather's and how he was infatuated with death.