DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Travel Plaza" by Heather Christle More information about the Poet: Heather Christle Rhetoric, personal, white space.  It's how I see this poem.  And even though these seem to be different techniques and outlooks composed in a poem, they fold into each other quite well. Well, that's what the poem states:      The day not redolent      of anything in particular      but more generally      it folds into itself      a little bag that hides      a large bag inside So the rhetoric here is based on a visual metaphor of a little bag holding a folded up larger bag.  But before that, there is the play with ideas (particular versus general) and the image of smell defined within those parameters of particular and general.  So the folding technique based on rhetoric is there and the speaker has to be specific behind the meaning of this, "The day promise...