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Original Analysis Here:  https://ddcpoetry.blogspot.com/2013/02/analysis-of-view-by-shanna-compton.html It's been ten years since I first started posting analysis of individual poems.  In that time span I analyzed poems everyday to not doing analysis for the entirety of a year to being spotty, and now I'm just going to try something once a week with two projects: analysis of poetry, and looking back at old analysis and just writing about it. I wanted to look up the poets and really see their background.  Since the original analysis, Shanna Compton  has published so much: four books of poems and multiple publications.  Looking at her later poems like "I wore my dress"  and "Seven Steps to Better Listening" : there's a bit more space and play with white space.   For this poem though, the first thing I noticed is that I didn't do a real good job of analyzing this poem.  I was so self-conscious on how I'd appear as a critic as I was graded harshl...

Original poem reprinted online here:: " Panoramic View" by Shanna Compton Originally Read: November 28, 2012 (I think) More information about the Poet: Shanna Compton Hopefully you can click on the picture and it expands to something viewable, but not legible (it's already too late for that.) After reading this over again -- notes and poem.  I still like how the extended metaphor works as a dampening (not distancing) device for emotional sentimentality. How can one feel anything if it's like"this" and then this "this" is like "that"? I wrote on the bottom, "The poem hinges on sentimentality near the end, then you (as the reader) realize what is there to be sentimental about" there are never really any clear and focused details -- like viewing a panoramic picture for the first time (you see what I did there -- not good). And see, less than 15 minutes, League is still down though.  Next poem tomorrow I suppose.