Hope: Claire Barbour

"After the car left,
The car with no license plate,
we couldn't

find out"

- This Poem by Ariel Dorfman, is strategically plotted out in order to emphasize ironic aspects of the poem and also to emphasize different major parts of the story line. For example "hope" is used towards the the end of the poem, It is laid out so that there is emphasise on this word, and what the reader is drawn to is the irony of hope in the poem because the hope the the narrator is hoping for is negative hope instead of positive.

-In order to recreate the strategy used in this poem I would formulate the layout of the poem, so that emphasise was drawn to certain aspects while still coming together to form a story the lines of the poem would be placed so that the poem expresses important aspects without making the reader search for them.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand: Claire Barbour

"And heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity..."

- To see a World in a Grain of Sand by William Blake uses sophisticated rhyming to avoid a childish tone. Because of this you can instead focus not on the quality of the rhyming but instead the importance and meaning behind the poem. Blake uses this poem to describe the beauty of nature and how easily it can be overlooked.

- In order to create this sophisticated tone, I can use enjament, a term the we a discussed in class and also one that I noticed in this poem. After reading this poem I realized the affect of enjament on a the text. I tried to go through and ignore the punctuation to see the difference between the two, and I noticed how the tone of the poem completely change from childish to sophisticated.