Blog # 9- 11/8/12

I felt as though if someone read Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape that they would have to have watched Popeye before. There was definitely a lot of repetition of the words spinach, thunder, apartment and country. From what I gathered about the story it was showing how good America was as a country. I think that Ashbery mixed cartoon characters with the technical form of the poem so that if people watched Popeye that they could also love America. The poem also uses the word spinach a lot to exemplify that in America you can eat whatever food you want whenever you want. Ashbery wanted people to appreciate all the luxuries of America that other, third world countries do not have.