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Original poem reprinted online here: Analysis of "Ministry Today" by Steve Davenport Originally read: January 5, 2013 More information about the Poet: Steve Davenport                                                     His Website Here After reading this again today, I created a narrative of the speaker.  Although the poem is lyric, the tone creates character.  I've been thinking about tone, and I ask myself -- is tone like accents on the page?  It's not exactly transferable, but I'm thinking of this.  There's an image that pops up with a Southern drawl, maybe of a southern Louisiana gentlemen, and then from the accent (voice) I envision a person. Now, in this poem, I really start to envision a person with the rhetor...

Original poem reprinted online here: "Albert the Pig Speaks" by Adam Day Originally read: December 21, 2012 More information about the Poet: Adam Day  On my copy, I write down that the author is "Albert Day."  I am wrong, again.  Anyway on to the poem. I admit that this is weird poem for me to read, and there's a part in the poem with this adjective/noun combination "pedrastic turtledoves" which makes sense on a logical level.  Okay no it doesn't, it's just a weird combination. Also I wrote this about the beginning, "This description is too good.  It's awkward but not so much that it's out of place"  and it's true.  The title of the poem is "Albert the Pig Speaks"  from the title I'm not looking at realism, I'm looking for a sense of surrealism and how it's worded. The play of language and colors is what I like about this color.  The word play  like "Stomach, flac soled, dropsical"  -- the t...