Frank O’Hara Ave Maria pg. 548
The main reason as to why I was automatically drawn to this poem is because of the title, Ave Maria, which is my favorite hymn. however, the poem takes on a completely different message. The poem talks on how mother’s of American can not keep their children closed to the world around them. The way the speaker emphasizes such a new language for me since, many times when I heard the Hymn Ave Maria, it was normally in a moment of remembrance or death , and now it offers me a sense wisdom that helps to promote a healthy life. The speaker mentions “darker joys” stating, “…instead of hanging around in the yard or up in their room, hating you prematurely since you won’t have done anything horribly mean yet except from keeping them from the darker joys” (O’Hara, pg. 548). What are these darker joys that are being mentioned? Is it the feeling of self autonomy, separating yourself from your parents, being able to find your own independence? If so, then I find it ironic that in order for children to experience what life is they must separate themselves from the constraints that parents bring along- yet later in life, most of the time, we find ourselves trying to be more like or closer to our parents.
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