"Taxi" by Amy Lowell

When I go away from you 

The world beats dead

Like a slackened drum. 

I call out for you against the jutted stars

And shout into the ridges of the wind. 

Streets coming fast, 

One after the other,

Wedge you away from me,

And the lamps of the city prick my eyes

So that I can no longer see your face.

Why should I leave you

To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?

So, taxi, a taxi that could take you far away, a taxi that you hope to be arrriving somewhere, but you cannot know for sure, a taxi that you just want to take you away from the pain. Yes, I like the sound of it, the sound of the Inception quote I changed in order to fit it to the poem, but those words can sound silly, too. The poem tells us about this girl who maybe broke up with her boyfriend or just left him for the night because either she or he had something else to do. And then she is suffering like hell, either way. But is that my interpretation or what the poem really wants to say? But even though someone tells me what the poem "really wants to say", I would interpret it. So my interpretation is that, and I find it really silly. And I can say that because of the interpretation I gave to it, it is not a good poem. But people have taught me that poems should be judged not from the topic, but by the way they are written. So yes, I like that there are metaphors (but kind of simple, though) and the images (like the 3d neon lights coming right into your eyes full of tears, hurting them). I like those, but not the poem itself, maybe there is a good arrangement of the verses, but that I cannot be sure of, even though that I can actually say I like. So to me, it is not a poem I can put in the category of "Poems I consider to be good". 


And I would have liked for the title to be more of a metaphor.