In “Fizzy Star Box,” a poem by Loraine Schein, published in issue 7 of Rivet Journal, the poet depicts a lovely scene about the narrator, the star, and the fizzy box. The others who play a role in this scene are us, mother astronomy, the storm, and the physicist. Along with her four-section poem, Schein uses symbolism along with some guiding keywords. The only repeated words along the poem are star, star box, beyond.
The most interesting part of the poem is: “Like the children running the magic shop, / We live in the occult, not always knowing how / The trick is done.” Here the narrator uses “We” after mentioning “children” without clear referencing; moreover, it is unclear who is the narrator talking to. Conceivably, the narrator -presumably, a little girl- is talking to oneself, with symbolizing the unknown future to “the magic shop” where everything alters without “knowing how / The trick is done.” The unknown can be joyful and not dramatic; however, surprising and unexpected merely as magic. The narrator does not know the “the trick;” possibly, the trick symbolizes fate. Possibly, “beyond / Beyond” is the future, and the narrator wants to see the future under the protection of mother astronomy. As the narrator protects the star, she asks her…show more content… By following this logic, the narrator is scared about the dreams that they might disappear along the
