Nature Is My Friend

I have never been a big fan of poetry, but I find Lorine Niedecker's poems very compelling. She makes you view nature from different points than you normally would. In some poems she seems like she loves nature, but in others it seems like she sees it as a bad thing. I think in her poem:

My friend Tree

I sawed you down

but I must attend 

an older friend

the sun

Lorine talks about nature in a good way and a bad way. In the line "My friend tree," I think she sees nature in a way that she loves it and would not want to hurt it. She calls the tree her friend, but the next line contradicts that. She says "I sawed you down." If she saw the tree as a friend, then why would she saw.  it down. When you look at the next couple of lines it makes more sense why she would saw the tree down. She did it to try and stay out of the sun sometimes. I think she did it to maybe build a house so she could sit inside because even though the sun is an old friend it is also dangerous. Even though she loved the tree like a friend she has to saw it down to keep her from getting hurt by the sun.

Lorine Niedecker's poems are very compelling yet confusing. They really make you think about things and even though when she was writing them they may have made a lot of sense to her, they make everyone else think. Even though many of her poems are very short they have a lot of meaning behind them when you really try and look at them. They make you look at things from different points of views than you maybe normally would.