This is in response to Katie Chaple's Pretty Little Rooms. I like this piece because of the way that Chaple uses the triggering subject and the discovered/end subject. Hugo says that the triggering subject is the idea that you start with: for Chaple, it is the initial article that she read about the body being exhumed and finding that there were two different people in the tomb. That in itself is an interesting way to go about finding something to write about. I want to try that one day: find something random in the paper and write a piece about what it makes me think in regards to the people involved. But then, in the end the discovered subject is revealed to be the idea that the female body is a commodity for science. "Nobody asks: Whose body was not loved enough/ that her skull could travel like a pebble,/could be used to punctuate the line of a man's body?" I love the different connotations of the word "used." It could mean utilized, implement, fulfilled, or "used up," "abused." And then she uses "punctuate the line" and that could mean both the line of the skeleton (the woman's skull is the ending of the man's body) or a line of poetry (its the end of the poem).
These multiple meanings and multiple subjects are what I really enjoy with her poems. I want to utilize that idea in my pieces.
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