Original poem reprinted online here: "Canticle of Clouds" by Jennifer Atkinson Originally read: May 18, 2013 More information about the Poet: Jennifer Atkinson When I first read this poem, I didn't look up any of the terms and tried to go at this poem as is. Past me wrote this overarching idea about the poem, "fragmentation of emotions, memories, interpretation brought together by simple placement of punctuation." I remember focusing on one thing in this poem and that's the usage of the semi-colon as a separating and connecting device. But now I should look up all the terms that I don't know...there are many. Canticle . Well, yes, then. The form of a repeated structure "name -- (interpretation) description [how things anaphora] ; description (interpretation)" reads similarly to a hymn. Yet there's the lack of musicality, and a sort of religious reverence is in it's place instead. Stratus. Well the image sort of fits the interpreta...
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