"One Train Hides Another" by Kenneth Koch

After reading the poem once, then listening to it, I saw that there was a big difference between the two. When you read the poem, "One Train May Hide Another" outloud you get all discumbobulated and thrown off of track. It is easy to get lost in the words and the greater meaning behind the poem because it contains alot of words as well as comparisons. Also when read outloud you are unsure of the pace that the poem should be goin, which confuses you even more. When you listen to the poem it is a different story. The speaker's voice is moving at the pace that the poem should be going which really relaxes your brain. The speaker warns you to relax your mind and really listen to the words that are being said.



"One Train May Hide Another" is more like a story than a poem. It consist of 65 or so lines(i could be some what off because my eyes were burning from not blinking when counting), however it contains no stanzas. This poem is very tricky on the eyes because being that it has no stanzas you arent really sure when you should pause, or take a break, so you find yourself rambling on and reading with out breathing for about 5 minutes. The concept of the poem is a "what if" factor. It gives you reasons behind the reasons to look beyond the reasons when you are reasoning (tongue twister I kno, how you all get it). This line stood out the most to me in the poem, "In the Garden of Eden Adam and Eve may hide the real Adam and Eve". This line stood out the most to me because it actually made me think, what if we dont know the true story behind the garden of eden? what if its more to the story then we are told?. When these questions popped up in my head I knew that the poem had successfully got me, it made me a victim of the "what if" factor.

All together I actually enjoyed this poem. It made a lot of interesting points and "what if" factors.

-Tiffany A.