Ashes -“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy
Barren, silent, godless.
Looking for anything of color.
Looking for anything of color.
Any movement.
He said: if he is not the word of God God never spoke.
I'm right here.
I'm right here.
I know.
Each other's world entire.
We have to go back.
Nothing to see.
Nothing to see.
There was nothing.
Sometime. Not now.
Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief.
Have you a heart?
If only my heart were stone.
A blackness to hurt your ears with listening.
Eyes closed, arms oaring.
Desolate country.
Freeze this frame.
How else would death call you?
No
one
traveled
this
road.
The poem above is a recollection of phrases I liked from the first 20 pages of The Road. The punctuation and the wording are left untouched. I only played around with sentence structure so McCarthy's essence and would remain the same. My intention was to highlight the mood one may perceive while reading, as well as incorporating the father's relationship with his son. McCarthy repeats the same ideas over again in order reach into his readers minds and cause some kind of chip that will be constantly reminding them what the characters are going through.
The poem above is a recollection of phrases I liked from the first 20 pages of The Road. The punctuation and the wording are left untouched. I only played around with sentence structure so McCarthy's essence and would remain the same. My intention was to highlight the mood one may perceive while reading, as well as incorporating the father's relationship with his son. McCarthy repeats the same ideas over again in order reach into his readers minds and cause some kind of chip that will be constantly reminding them what the characters are going through.
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