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Original poem reprinted online here: "Estrangement" by Paula Bohince Originally read: February 27, 2013 More information about the Poet: Paula Bohince After rereading this poem and looking at my notes, I really didn't look up a lot of things that I should've.  The first being the color of flowers or actually remember what they look like.  The second is to reconsider or consider how the word estrangement fits into the poem.  Who is the one alienated? Well me as a reader in some aspects.  At some points in the poem I felt that I should know the flowers to gain a deeper meaning into the poem ("amaryillis" "juniper" "mint" "jasmine" "oleander)) not only for the shape and smell of each individual plant, but, what makes nature poems hard to do, is what each flowers literary history.  Yes, I know that would be symbols in one aspect, but I feel that images, especially nature images, have multiple contexts when a reader reads into t...

Original poem reprinted online here: "The End of The World" by Archibald MacLeish Originally read: December 17, 2012 More information about the Poet:  Archibald MacLeish I think previously, or many times before, I write about the adjective noun combination.  In creative writing classes told me to be careful of adjectives or adverbs.  And I followed those directions.  In my work for the past couple of years, you won't read adjectives or adverbs at all in my work and probably this blog post.  Yeah, I kind of take things too literally. It hasn't been until recently that I started to analyze why.  On a personal level, why I listened to them without thought.  On a "poetry" (how hoity) level, I grew bored with how predictable my style is (image based narratives with an epiphanic ending that's still "mysterious" and up to the reader -- a little bit too formulaic).   So I'm starting to notice how poems work on a construction level -- and the first...