Analysis Of Good Bones By Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith is a 21st century American poet and author. She received a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a MFA from Ohio State University. Besides being the author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), her other works were, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Press, 2015), and, “Lamp the Body (Red Hen Press, 2015). She has accumulated numerous writing awards, and has been a freelance writer, teacher and editor. She resides in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. (“Extending Bio”) Good Bones, is a poem written in 2015 by Maggie Smith, published in Waxwing, Issue XI, in June 2016 (2016) and distribute by Tupelo Press. (Tupelo, Press, 2017). The poem begins with the characteristic of literalist, which is able to convey the mood of the words in the verbatim perception. The phrase “Life is short”, is enunciated in the way in which the author describes that she is familiar of how the world is versus the dilemma on how to protect it from her children. She also affirms it again in a repetition style with the line “In a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways... a thousand deliciously,
We must always show them the light no matter the dimness, which is an easier feat when they are young. It’s when they become of age and are aware of their environment in which the questioning begins and it is then when we contrive the predicament of at what time we need to break the news to them. In addition, with some intermingling of hope that ascends in the latter verse of, “Good Bones” that persuasively utters, “I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right. You could make this place beautiful.”