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Original poem reprinted online here:  "I Write You This on a Train Named for an Endangered Bird" by Kyle McCord Originally read: January 17, 2013 More information about the Poet: Kyle McCord After rereading this, I'm trying to figure out what the name of the endangered bird is.  The funny thing is is that the name of the bird is not important -- rather it's the loose end that's not answered in the poem. However, the whole question/answer, call/response idea doesn't come into effect until after the poem is done.  When I first read this poem, I felt this poem was only a stream-of-consciousness poem where the focus was entirely the directions the ideas were going.  For example, "like pitting your protagonist against an all-knowing, all-seeing jaguar spirit." which I past me thought was funny. Now I realize that this poem deals with duality not only  scene wise, but within the language itself.  Note how there's a separation between the first sentence...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "In Memoriam (VII)" by Alfred Tennyson Originally read: January 14, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Alfred Tennyson This is another hesitation by me.  I like the poem (why would I choose to do this if I didn't).  However, looking around the internet, a simple search shows more detailed analysis of the poem from people like me (mostly readers) to scholars who write the context, the history, and the meaning behind every rhyme scheme and word.  I can also see why this would be a turn off for people trying to get into poetry (for such a short piece why is there so much context?).  So, I'm going forward the best I can. Do I know the context behind this poem?  Somewhat.  You'd probably find more information here , or here .  This is part 7 of a 17 year elegy.  There's so many nuances and allusion in the poem that I possibly cannot get.  I think for a reader of poetry (with any amount of backgro...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Remembered Light" by Clark Ashton Smith Originally read: December 5, 2012 More information about the Poet:  Clark Ashton Smith "Ah, how reminiscent of the Romantics, the 'I' being smaller than the scene.  Memory, bigger than the self." Some days, I wonder about my education affects my worldview.  I'm pretty sure that someone who doesn't know about the Romantics and how Clark Ashton Smith, a modernist West Coast Romantic, was thoroughly influenced by Wordsworth and Coleridge. However, the poem is not an homage to the Romantics rather feeling the impact of loss and years going by in a natural setting.  The "I" can only exist for so long before "I beheld that larger world." So here's the quandary I have, and I guess some regrets as a reader of poetry.  If you look at my analysis on this poem -- it's very, Academic: "extension of metaphor", "sonically", "singular ...