Red Slippers (Amy Lowell)

Sorry, but I do not have the time to write a real post tonight. I'm simply going to copypaste the 'talk' of someone else about this poem by Amy Lowell.

"Much like the moment in "Sex and the City" when Carrie Bradshaw peers into the shoe shop window and sultrily addresses a pair of heels through the glass as "Hello, lo-vah," this poem perfectly captures the iconic status of the shoe—especially for women. It hones in precisely on the shoe as a fantasy, an aspiration, an untouchable object of desire. By contrasting the gray and white of the everyday world of shops and windy sleet against the "crimson lacquer," the "stalactites of blood," the "red rockets" of these slippers hanging in the window, she heightens the shoe to this intense, pulsing otherworldly object, held just beyond reach, behind glass."

By: Meghan Cleary

Favorite line: "Snap, snap, they are cracker sparks of scarlet in the white"