DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Conversation" by Ai Ogawa Originally read: June 17, 2013 More information about the Poet: Ai Ogawa "and you realize how that image / is simply the extension of another image."  Past me circled these lines and wrote "core."    These lines occur in the middle of the poem, and the question being why announce your technique in the middle of a poem?  Well, if the subject matter is too strong, too much for a reader, the little respite brings reflection. The poem opens up with present day action, "We smile at each other / and I lean back against  the wicker couch, / How does it feel to be dead? I say"  The scene starts off innocuous, but then start of the conversation brings another question of "who is dead." But instead of who, it's more about the action of the dead:      You touch my knees with your blue fingers      And when you open your mouth,      a ball of...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Beauty" by Elinor Morton Wylie Originally read: January 16, 2013 More information about the Poet: Elinor Morton Wylie So I read this poem after "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron ; however, I don't remember if I analyzed them at the same time.  Judging by the line marks, I'm pretty sure no.  Anyway, reading the poem and then thinking about what Byron wrote brought a new perspective for me. Form first, this poem is written in quatrains with an alternating rhyme scheme (rhyme scheme similar to Byron), and still the technique.  There's something separate and off in the poem. Let me write down what I first thought about the poem: "Summary time!  If stanza 3 was put in place in stanza 1 -- I think the poem would be less of a definition of beauty but how beauty is defined." Although I don't agree with past me, I do see the point.  If I looked at this poem as a definition poem (title being the word to be def...