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Analysis of "My anonymous hour" by Sarah White

Original poem reprinted online here: "My anonymous hour" by Sarah White Originally read: April 10, 2013 More information about the Poet: Sarah White   The title leads into the poem.  I haven't thought about the uses of that for a while.  In this poem in particular, I feel that the title leading into the poem emphasizes the narrative quality, no matter how broad or specific, in the poem.  Now, why is this not prose?   Well, this poem is meta-poetic in a humorous way.  No, the speaker doesn't enforce paradigms or state what poetry should be, but rather the act of poetry.   And so the intro goes as it should -- the stereotypical recovery meeting, the introduction " Hello , Sarah" to the time spent on not doing, writing in verse:       "I had an anniversary --       six months without a line."       Applause. "But you know      how it goes-- So, I ask m...