The Brooklyn Bridge is one of my favorite places, and after finding out that the readings for this week were about the Brooklyn Bridge, I was so excited. Even though I’ve lived in New York my entire life, the past summer was the first time I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. It was the most exciting experience ever! All the sites that I’m used to seeing from behind the windshield of my car seemed so different and in a sense alive from atop the bridge. Now I like to go to DUMBO and on the rocks at night and just enjoy the beauty that is the Brooklyn Bridge.
As soon as I opened the page to Mayakovsky’s poem, I was really intrigues by the way that the poem was formatted. Mayakovsky really sheds light on the amazing aspects of the Brooklyn Bridge, but also mentions how the Brooklyn Bridge is also a spot where depressed individuals or those that are suffering daily because of the hardships life has given them, decide to put an end to their misery and plunge themselves into the Hudson. This reminded me of the wreaths I had seen while walking along the bridge dedicated to those who had used the bridge as a means to ending their suffering.