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Original poem reprinted online here: "Albert the Pig Speaks" by Adam Day Originally read: December 21, 2012 More information about the Poet: Adam Day  On my copy, I write down that the author is "Albert Day."  I am wrong, again.  Anyway on to the poem. I admit that this is weird poem for me to read, and there's a part in the poem with this adjective/noun combination "pedrastic turtledoves" which makes sense on a logical level.  Okay no it doesn't, it's just a weird combination. Also I wrote this about the beginning, "This description is too good.  It's awkward but not so much that it's out of place"  and it's true.  The title of the poem is "Albert the Pig Speaks"  from the title I'm not looking at realism, I'm looking for a sense of surrealism and how it's worded. The play of language and colors is what I like about this color.  The word play  like "Stomach, flac soled, dropsical"  -- the t...

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...