Windy Town (And Analyze)

Quick introduction to what I am about to do, I have written a poem, which I will now share with you, and then decode. Follow along, now, kiddies, cause this is the only post I'm making. If you don't like poetry, scram, or else you're going to have to endure mine. I will skip a few spaces before I go into the analyze encase you want to take the poem and interpret it yourself.  I just know that sometimes I like to know what went on in the author's head when they wrote it, not just how I took it. 



Down on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl sat down,
And down on the bench on the streets of Windy Town,
The girl spread out her tattered gown,

And a crow hopped up and crouched down low,
Leaving the girl to exclaim, “why hello!”,
But another crow came with yet another in tow,
Till a murder of crows crowded the girl’s dim glow,

She was swatting them away,
When the first crow cawed, “human, you should play!”,
So the girl stilled her lavish display,
And waited for the game to pass underway,

The birds kept pecking and flapping all day,
Until with a final shriek the girl thrust out of the fray.
And raced off towards the shores of the Windy Bay,
With the streets of Windy Town laughing all the way,

Kicking off her broken heels,
The girl dove into a bay of eels,
And the eels dragged her down to the depths for their meals,
Then from above she heard a distorted, “girl, drag your heels!”

So the girl kicked up with her dress now a rag,
And the girl coughed the water onto the shore with a final gag,
Out of the bay rose a figure as mighty as a stag,
Yet her dress from the water the girl couldn’t drag,

And the wicked eel did the figure embody,
With carved, sweet features as he turned the ground foggy,
Raising a knife he knelt down still a somebody,
And carefully cut the dress from her body,

Now the girl sat up,
Finally not the least bit corrupt,
With no lingering urges to give up,
And now she recognized the stranger close up,

The girl held out her hand to her lost love,
For a stranger thing the girl had never heard of,
And the crows squawked feverishly from above,
As from his pocket the boy drew a dove,

He set it out high,
High to the sky,
And the streets of Windy Town flew on by,
Until the girl sat alone and watched eagles pass on by,

But the girl dismissed her sadness,
She replaced it with gladness,
For her boy had once again helped her escape her madness.





Starting now, guys, so back off if you don't want to hear me break it down and ruin the mystery!

So, as you may notice, there is a lot of symbolism here. Windy Town, Windy Bay, the girl's tattered gown, the crows, the boy, the eels, the dove, the eagles. I'm gonna share all those with you. 

Windy Town represents the state of mind the girl is in, depression and despair and hopelessness and turmoil. 'Windy' I chose because of her turmoil of emotions, like windy storms. And 'town' to represent where she was at, as in her state of mind. 

Windy Bay is a place that represents deception. It is what she thinks is her savior, but it falls through and just drags her deeper and deeper into her pit of despair. 'Windy' to connect it to Windy Town and that's reasoning (see above). 'Bay' because she thinks that the water will hold safety and liberation, but it does not. I associate water with safety and liberation.

The girl's dress is to represent shattered dreams that get broken more and more as time goes on, and hold her down, see 'yet her dress from the water the girl couldn't drag', as in she could not get out of that mindset and misery. 

The crows are to mean all the insults and people and cruelty that put her into the hole of misery she is in. They come under the deception of good and peace and friendliness, see 'human, you should play!', but when the girl opens up, they attack her and belittle her. 

The eels are what keep pushing her down and holding her there. They are the people and comments and pain that do not allow her to get out of her pit. 

The boy is a savior, a liberator for the girl. He represents the people the girl has lost, and her memory that they would have wanted her to fight, and how much she loves them. See, 'then from above she heard a distorted, "girl drag your heels!", he encourages her to fight out of her haze and away from the 'eels'. He also represents a new being in her life, someone that comes and helps her from the pit, see, 'and carefully cut the dress from her body'. That line symbolizes the boy (the newcomer and savior) helping her to release her broken dreams that set her there in the first place. It  shows him helping her and liberating her. 

The dove the boy releases is the cleansing the liberator brings to the girl. The crows (the insulters and tormentors) fear it, (the peace) and they are scared off and leave the girl alone. 

Eagles represent freedom, the freedom the girl feels after her liberator has left, even though she is sad, she is grateful and happy because she is free of her burden and pain, he has delivered her from Windy Town (if you were able to note the change in setting). 

This ultimately a poem about hope, and not giving up. I felt the need to write it, because I'm going through a tough spot, have been for a long time, and I needed the poetry to express what I hoped for. 

It's called a narrative poem, and they're really nice to write. (I recommend The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, it's a classic narrative and far better than my own)