The Poem Kudzu By Carley Rees Bogarad

In the poem, Kudzu, by Carley Rees Bogarad, the author was expressing what it feels like to dream of and actually view a lover being intimate with someone else. This dramatic narrative explains the difference between the Kudzu plant in Arizona and Japan, as well as the allusion of plant in the narrator’s own life. The comparison being that in Arizona, they twine around poles and trees, completely taking over. In Japan, they use the plant to prevent destruction of the earth. These both reflect on how the plant is taking over the narrator life. As in Arizona, the Kudzu completely drowns and engulfs anything in it’s way as the narrator is overwhelmed complementary to the landscape in the South. Similarly to the Kudzu in Japan, there is safety