Poem found here: "Unusually Warm March Day, Leading to Storms" by Francesca Abbate The content of this poem is a bit chaotic -- the nice day comes at the end of the storms in a sense. However, the technique in this poem: the weight of similes, the conceptual conceit, interests me the most. "Everything is half here" is such a broad conceptual statement which is then followed by the simile of: like the marble head of the Roman emperor and the lean torso of his favorite The simile, the other half, doesn't really compliment the concept; rather, they appear more at odds. Not in the sense of one or the other, but rather the "marble head / of the Roman emperor" is taking either more or less space than the, "lean torso / of his favorite." Nothing too visceral, nothing too extreme, just the question asked -- which half is more important. This idea follows through with a catastroph...
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