"Marks"

Of all of the poems that I read for this blog entry I feel that the poem “Mark by Linda Pastan was a very well written and a creative poem. I couldn’t help but laugh my way through it. I thought that it was a very funny and creative topic to write about and because it was written this way it was not only funny to read it was also an easy read from start to finish. The one thing that I thought was creative was how the author expressed each family member’s opinion of how their mom took care of the housework and the family. The one thing that I thought would have added to the creativity of the piece would have been if the author would have continue with the idea of getting the rest of the families opinion on grading mom on her effects of running the house the husbands opinion and the children’s opinion were real but, in my opinion it would have been kind of fun if the author would have taken the story to the next level and asked other relatives their opinions (i.e. grandparents, aunts, uncles). In my opinion that would have given the story just that much more of a creative twist to the story as a whole.