DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: Analysis of "Coal" by Audre Lorde Originally read: December 18, 2012 More information about the Poet: Audre Lorde I read this poem again out loud and I wrote this on stanza two my first read: "I could see the attraction of the extended metaphor -- this is more of a performance through sound and    loose image; yet, all phantoms -- dead metaphors stacked on dead metaphors doesn't create life -- only a reminder of the dead" Yeah, I don't know what was going through my mind that day.  Today though I liked the play of simile,  I don't know why.  Each simile describes how the speaker views words to say "diamonds" "adders" and "gypsies over my tongue to explode through my lips."  Okay so the exploding gypsies one doesn't work for me -- there's surreal and there's just silly. Anyway, I wrote this at the end of the poem, "the construction of this...I tknow why it'll work beca...