Blog Entry #1

Upon first reading "Original Sin: A Short Story" by Robert Penn Warren, I was completely confused. Not because it uses words that are foreign to me, but because I never really understand a poem until i fully analyze it piece by piece. After reading a couple more times I came to the conclusion that maybe the poem is about the speaker leaving home when asked not to. The speaker tried to escape his reality and leave to a place where he could start fresh and new. However, the speaker could not get ride of his past that easily. It always came back to haunt him like a ghost. The speaker explained so many occasions when his past haunted him and compared it to so many things. For example, "It acts like the old hound that used to snuffle your door and moan"(line 5). Warren was comparing an old hound sitting around waiting for his owner to recognize it just like the past was waiting for the speaker to acknowledge its presence.