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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