Week 3 Blog #2 


“After summer fell apart” by Yusef Komunyakaa  


The poem after summer fell apart is a unique poem. I feel as though he is talking about the woman whom he has been with romantically over a period of time, but she then becomes emotionally and physically detached from him and as a result falls out of love. He knows that he does not fully have her heart so when he is with her, he does everything to get them to the point where they once were. Neither physically nor emotionally can he persuade her that love is still alive between them, but despite his failure he tries to find some sort of understanding for her reasoning. As he mentions the two boats moored together it seems as if it is saying that they are holding on to each other, but they are not going anywhere either forward or backwards in the relationship but at a standstill. It has been constant with neither any improvement nor deterioration. They are just there, and everything remains the same. He then refers to the poem “Maybe tonight” where he mentions that he wants to get it right in which this illustrates to me how he desires to repair what seems to be broken. He is willing to take the time out for them to bond again, just them alone without the distractions or thoughts of “other” people outside of them. Also, in contrast to the poem in the beginning he starts out by saying he cannot touch her because he is reminded of the other man where they exchange long looks in each bad dream. Whereas in the poem he speaks of being close to her, so close that he can smell her perfume and he specifies that they Exchange gentle looks this time. So, I see this as his mind fighting between wanting to reach reconciliation but not being able to fight against the thoughts of her being with someone else. The fact that he says that they have not been intimate in over 6 months but yet she smiles in her sleep, puzzles him to know that she is happy despite their lack of intimacy, but he is aware that it is not him who is the reason for her happiness so because of this he is eager to find out who is.  

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