- When reading this poem the literary aspects of it seem to have very little influence of my opinion and analysis of it. Instead what stood out to me was the strong emotion that this poem evoked from me. This poem hits the reader at a very personal level whether or not they have ever lost a young person in their life or not. Donald Justice uses religious ties and strong ideas to provoke emotions from the reader.
-I believe in order to replicate the tone of this poem, one would need to choose a topic that would automatically draw emotions from the reader, and then try to reach a personal level with them so that it would seem as though the speaker was speaking directly to them.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Why I Went to College- Claire Barbour
"you better learn
to eat soup
through a straw"
- Why I Went to College, written by Martin Espada, has a humorous a rhythmical tone. Due to the rhymes Espada uses throughout the poem, the reader is pleasantly surprised by the humorous lines that the rhymes create. I believe that the bluntness of the rhymes is why they are humorous, as well as the obviously humorous diction used to create the rhymes.
- In order to replicate the humor in this poem, I would first find the words that would used as the base of the humor and create more or less humor depending on how blunt or in-depth I decided to make the lines . Blunt being more humorous than in-depth.
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