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Original poem reprinted online here: "A Coat" by William Butler Yeats Originally read: January 18, 2013 More information about the Poet:  William Butler Yeats I don't know what form this is.  There is a rhyme scheme, but it's not as consistent or follows a specific pattern.  Maybe since there is a certain foolishness with the poem in multiple levels, so the rhyme is offbeat -- depicts "humor." And this poem is humorous, especially when looking at the end lines, "For there's more enterprise / In walking naked."  There's a sense of defiance here that doesn't seem completely serious; however, in spite of the rhyme scheme and the ending, I feel the crux of the poem is the creation of the coat in the first four lines.      I made my song a coat      Covered with embroderies      Out of old mythologies      From heel to throat There's the concept of exposing oneself versus exposing one's art....

Original poem reprinted online here:  "I Said to Love" by Thomas Hardy Originally read: January 12, 2013 More information about the Poet: Thomas Hardy I didn't write this down in my notes, but after rereading this poem, I imagine a narrative, similar to how I saw a narrative in Ministry Today by Steve Davenport even though, more or less, this is a lyric poem.   I, once again, imagine two guys at a bar talking about love this time (other time it was about God). The anaphora of "I said to [...]" brings a dialogue quality to the poem.  When the speaker is addressing "love," really, the speaker is just exposing his own thoughts about love.  For example, in the first stanza, "When men adored thee and thy way / all else above;"  Although the speaker tries to look at the subject a bit objectively and take himself away from the "men."  The further the poem gets, the more personal the poem becomes. I think I questioned when the speaker wrot...