Bicentennial

Section one

      In the first stanza I believe that Chiasson was trying to say that he had a lot on his mind, and that he needed someone to talk to listen to him. in the second stanza, chiasson was trying to say that he has something he was to say to someone or about something, but he was afraid that what he had to say would be accepted in the wrong way, and the third stanza I think what chiasson is saying is that it could either hurt them, or worse not even bother them.  I think that the way the poem is structured says a lot about what the poem, and the way author is trying to send his messages. why did the author chose to break the poem up in to seven sections? The poem was hard to follow at first, but after we broke it up in class and we went over piece by piece. I got to understand a bit, about how and what he was trying to do in the poem. it was literally like going for a walk through his mind and seeing things from his past, and present.