Reading Response - Wendy's

On a very basic level, Wenderoth uses Wendy's to describe the current state of American culture and the significant role that fast food establishments play in our daily lives.  Shelley equates poets as being the best way to express and record a deep understanding of the world around us.  In this way Wenderoth further uses the setting of Wendy's to observe the people and actions around him and record them.  Shelley also suggests that poets capture the emotions of the age and they write to deal with issues in the future.  Wenderoth writes on a daily basis to express the mood of each individual day. 

 Wenderoth uses the language usually associated with eating and food and applies them to humans, particularly his sexual behavior.  He also relates the meat industry, which provides hamburgers for Wendy's, to human action and our bodies.  He greatly sexualizes Wendy, as though she is a real person he can touch and hold.  It is much like the Morton Salt poem we read in the first class.  The continual resurfacing of Wendy, suggests infatuation (maybe?), but also Wenderoth thinks that we are all infatuated with something that we know isn't real.  Yet this captivation on a daily basis has moved the idea from imagination to plausible in reality.  Wenderoth also uses the location of Wendy's to observe the people around him, which most people do on a regular basis, we people watch.  

The message Wenderoth conveys to me that we all have thoughts of taking socially unacceptable and somewhat ridiculous actions in public places, yet we still restrain ourselves.  The subtle actions Wenderoth takes in Wendy's are quite tame to the ones he thinks/considers performing.  He uses Wendy's as a playground to act out some of his desired actions in his mind.  He often uses the model "if this, then what would happen" in many of his entries.  He also uses the language of want very often to describe actions he wants to impart on others.