Many Red Devils

Many red devils ran from my heart
And out upon the page,
They were so tiny
The pen could mash them.
And many struggled in the ink.
It was strange
To write in this red muck
Of things from my heart.

I didn't really understand this poem until 

we analyzed it in class. Then I realized that

it is about the little things we do in life 

and little parts of ourselves go into it. 

They may go unnoticed for a while, but maybe 

while you reread a paper you realize all the 

little bits of your mood and yourself that have 

been added in. I like how the poem says the devils 

can be crushed by the pen, but he doesn't crush 

them. It is good to bring your life experiences 

and biases into some situations. You should make 

things that are a part of you because you are 

different and there is no person that can think 

the way you do and no two life experiences are the 

same. Maybe the part about the devils struggling 

is saying that the authors sometimes doesn't 

know how to put himself into the writing when 

he thinks that it should be there. These little 

parts of the author, creator, director, artist, or 

even reader can be so small. They could be the 

connections a reader makes to a part in the story, 

or a bit of a movie that the director changes 

because of a life experience they had. I think that

it is really interesting to look back at my writing

and see where all my life experience comes in and 

see where my opinions really shine even when I know 

that they shouldn't be there. I think he calls them

devils because perhaps he doesn't want them in the 

writing or they are very personal devils or faults

that he doesn't want to show in his writing. He says 

that it is very hard to write in all the "muck" and 

I think that maybe that could meant that the things he 

is letting out in his writing could be challenges in

his life or very hard things for him to talk about. 

Overall, after listening to the analysis in class I 

really think that I like this poem a lot more and it 

makes much more sense.