Week #3—Sign Inventory

“With a Green Scarf”

                        By Marin Sorescu

With a green scarf I blindfolded

The eyes of the trees

and asked them to catch me.

At once the trees caught me,

their leaves shaking with laughter.

I blindfolded the birds

with a scarf of clouds

and asked them to catch me.

The birds caught me

with a song.

Then with a smile I blindfolded

my sorrow

and the day after it caught me

with a love.

I blindfolded the sun

with my nights

and asked the sun to catch me.

I know where you are, the sun said,

just behind that time.

Don’t bother to hide any longer.

Don’t bother to hide any longer,

said all of them,

as well as all the feelings

I tried to blindfold.

Confessional style; 1st person voice

Number of lines in each stanza:  3/2 3/2 4/3 3/4

Enjambment in 10 lines but none between stanzas (closed form?)

Focus turns inward in fifth stanza to “sorrow”

Voice change in stanzas 7 and 8

Repetition of last line in stanza 7 and first line of stanza 8.

Repetition of verb “blindfold”

Objectivity in elements of nature (“clouds,” “birds,” “sun”) and time (“nights,” “time”)

Ending changes to subjectivity “feelings”

No descriptions except for “green scarf”

Whimsical tone