Dream Songs MQ

Berryman's dream songs nearly al uinclude the character henry and many of them are just an account of his life were he suffered some great loss. henry through the songs refers tohimslef in 1st 2nd and 3rd person really making the poem difficult to decifer. on top of that the awkward syntax and unnatural line breaks are also very demanding of the reader. Most of the poems have a very dark tone to them involving death, hell and beign alone "the image of the dead on the fingernail/of a newborn child" (5) and "I am alone too" (28) "If i had to do the whole thing over again/I wouldn't."(28). These dark peoms where berryman seperates himself from the world really lead me to believe that he was suicidal. also supporting this suicidal theory, he often describes himslef or the charaters of his poems, to be lying in a hospital bed getting no visitors. the entitre song 8 invloves a person lying in a bed having things putinto them and things taken away eneding with the crotch being taken, a possible simply for pride being stripped away. And again in song 28 that beings by simply saying "no visitors" and describes again a person lying in a hospital bed who seems to have lost all point in staying alive other than writing poetry. these songs mostly all contain 3 stanzas of six lines with a few slightly breaking the mold and have varying rhyme schemes. what i can interpret from them is that berryman was a very sad man who felt isolated from the rest of the world yet on display at the same time, like an animal in the zoo. he seemed to find his only joy and purpose in life in love and writing poetry.