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Original poem reprinted online here: "Black Stone on Top of a White Stone" by Cesar Vallejo Originally read: March 27, 2013 More information about the Poet: Cesar Vallejo I don't know whether to call the repetition anaphora or not.  Or for that matter, how anaphora works in general.  Maybe it's a case by case basis.  In any case, this poem repeats certain phrases like "I shall die in Paris" and "Thursday."  And, for a poem like this, does the anaphora or repetition serve any other purpose than to add to the psychology of the poem. Past me wrote, "Repetition of the day creates a desire -- this has to happen on this day."  What has to happen?  "I shall die in Paris."  In the first stanza the phrase repeats in line one and four.  And there's a sense of humor about the line when the speaker's feeling about the situation comes in, "it does not bother me" Also in the first stanza is the specific introduction of the d...

Original poem reprinted online here:  "Snow" by Kenneth Rexroth Originally read: January 11, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Kenneth Rexroth  So there's a certain speed of images that goes on here.  After rereading the poem today, I thought of how to control speed in a poem like for example alliteration and assonance create speed in a poem; furthermore, I feel, the majority of the time, longer sentences create speed.  So would that mean a long sentence with alliteration can be read the fastest? Anyway,  the poem starts out slow through sentence structure and image, "Low clouds hang on the mountain."  The poem could go into a different image for movement sake, but it's the reiteration (note: not repetition) of the image that slows the poem down, "The forest is filled with fog."  So the first few lines focuses on the clouds and the attributes of clouds: dim, invisible, growing.  Clouds are then juxtaposed by birds who take on the emotion...