After reading “Cathedral” by Raymond Carver, I noticed that his style of writing is simple. To me, he writes in a way that is not complicated for the reader to get his ideas. When I was reading the story (Cathedral) I found it very easy for me to keep up with the flow of his writing. However, I don’t understand the ending lol. I had to read the ending a few times to try to understand it. In “Photograph of my Father” he also writes in a very simple way to be a poem. “In jeans and denim shirt, he leans against the front fender of a 1934 Ford”. In contrast we read poems from authors like Robert Browning who write “My Last Duchess’ ‘using a deeper style of writing. In my opinion, his poem is way harder to read because of the language that he used. For example “The depth and passion of its earnest glance, But to myself they turned” This quote from “My Last Duchess” is an example of how his style of writing is way different from Carver’s style.
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Gabriela, thanks for getting the discussion started. It’s interesting that you focused on the poetry of Carver. Yes, the language is certainly different in the two poems. Of course, part of this is the time in which the poem was written, and part is because of the context of the time in the poem itself. What I mean is that “My Last Duchess” is about a 16th Century subject.
I Agree that he writes in a way that is not complicated for the reader to get his ideas! He is very simple yet deep in his style of writing. Cathedral has a very good flow and yes the ending is confusing, but that could be a contrast to “The Lesson.” When finishing with “The Lesson,” we were able to see the interpretations everyone had for the ending and meaning of the story like Cathedral.
I totally angree with you Gabriela about Carver’s simple writing style making it easy to follow his ideas, i get what you mean about the ending of “Cathedral” being a bit tricky to grasp at first, Carver keeps it straightforward, even in poetry like “Photograph of my Father.” Browning’s deeper style in “My Last Duchess” does make it tougher to read with all that fancy language.