When I read the poem "Is it Crazy to Want to Unravel," I was sympathetic to the emptiness the author feels. Her other poems where about other characters and giving them a voice to tell their stories. I believe this poem is more from a time where Wendy Rose actually felt like disappearing. In Neon Scars, the passage on 96, about the facts of her life, she tries to convey how unhappy she is. She talks about abuse, neglect, being sick, addiction, and most importantly a sense of being alone in the world. This poem is in turn a cry for what she would have really liked to do, disappear. The poem states many ways that she could disappear or dissolve in a sense.
Looking at the poem in a closer perspective she talks about the way winter begins. When I think of winter I think of plants and trees dying and disappearing. The way she incorporated winter in the poem it really brings to life her message. She talks about the moth getting harder as one way to go but then the other way is to just dissolve and become obediant like the women in the bible. She is not sure of the way she wants to disappear and die, whether it is to get hard or dissolve. She could evaporate or dissolve is another unique comparision. I am not sure I completely understand the real intentions of the poem but it is very deep and gives you the same impression of her other poems. It is a feeling of lonliness and emptiness that nothing ever fills. Whether she is trapped in a glass case or disappearing no one really notices her.
(Kelcey Summers, 10)
Great observation about Rose's poem. It is interesting that she writes poems about women who were exhibited as freaks and then writes a poem about a woman who wants to disappear and contemplates doing so in a variety of ways. You do a good job in identifying particular images that Rose uses to convey the woman's desire to disappear and be invisible.
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