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Original poem reprinted online here:   "October nor'easter" by Marge Piercy Originally read: October 31, 2013 More information about the Poet: Marge Piercy After rereading this poem, I'm not too sure why I picked it.  There's techniques in here which make this poem a little too over the top for me, but maybe that's why I picked this poem.  I want to explore why this poem didn't work out for me. The first stanza has hard language like "rip" and "scimitars" and "flung."  The beginning describes nature as something hardened, "Leaves rip from the trees / still green as rain scuds"  which then centers back tot he speaker, "as granite pebbles flung / in my face." The immediate follow-up has to deal with the speaker, "Sometimes my days are torn / from the calendar."  So at this point, I'm thinking, is this comparison worthwhile -- the violent nature as time passes by.  These aspect seems so polar to ...