DDCPoetry

Poem Found Here: "A March" by Ishion Hutchinson From there beginning of the poem there is a play of definition and how the definitions intertwine and contrast.  Well, literally in the beginning:      Lesson of the day: Syria and Styria      For Syria, read:  His conquering banner shook from Syria.       And for Styria: Look at this harp of blood, mapping. It's a play of homophones -- similar sounding words to distinguish a difference; however, note the play on the placement of the verb "read" in line 2 and "Look" in line 3 in which the former is before the reading which should take more time to process, but the latter is more of an image that is taken in "Now I am tuned" is an interesting way to introduce the "I" speaker.  There's a sense that the initial tercet was a warm up, now the real play of images and language stars here.  And within the second and third there's a play of image, "the forest shaken / on the bitume...