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Original poem reprinted online here: "Eviction Notice" by Dan Gerber Originally read: February 8, 2013 More information about the Poet: Dan Gerber Past me write down for the opening two lines  that they have a, "sing-songy quality and humorous."  So inspecting the first two lines again, "The spider from the rug / suddenly wondered where he was" not only has a sing-songy and humorous quality, but also a fable like quality.  In the first two lines we have a character who, through the description, has a heroic journey feel to him (ala Aeneas).  Not that the poem goes for the Aeneid allusion, more of a demonstration of character which is undercut in the next line, "if spiders ever do;" which brings the focus back onto the speaker interpreting the thoughts and actions which is further explored in the the following three lines, "the world went white, / then dark, / then bright/"  not how the focus is adjective visual imagery -- simple devic...

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:  "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...

Original poem reprinted online here: Analysis of "In the Park" by Gwen Harwood Originally read: January 3, 2013 More information about the Poet: Gwen Harwood So I warn my students about this when creating a sonnet -- "don't rhyme -ing words -- it's too easy."  Why?  Because my teachers warned me about doing such a thing.  On one hand rhyming verbs ending in --ing is too open (basically anything works); however, on the other hand the usage verb vs gerund would  be intersting (one focusing on action vs the other appropriating the noun with action).  However, this poem doesn't do that.  The -ing here, I won't say it's easy, but brings in a certain sense of the mundane that is a theme in the poem. On the first read, I only talk about form, "I'm not sure about the monosyllabic rhyme scheme.  A part of me thinks it's too simple, but simplicity, for the first part of the poem details the woman's life -- simply matter of fact." I to...