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Bruce Bennett – page 306
The Lady Speaks Again
This poem is sending a very strong message. If I had to guess I would say that this poem was written by a slave and is trying to tell her master something. She is trying to tell her that although the black people in this time period on earth are of less power in heaven they are all the same under gods eyes. The master of the slave seems to think she has the easy life in heaven too. The poem is only three lines but has a rhyme scheme of A, B, A, B. This poem is a tetrameter because there are four iambs in each line.
Jennifer Reeser- page 82
Winter-Proof
This poem is implicating that the flowers mentioned in the poem die in the winter. That is why he mentions the word “graveyard.” This poem has a A,B,A,B,C,D,C,D rhyme scheme but the A’s and C’s are all slant rhymes. The title of the poem really brings the whole poem because the title is ironic because most flowers are not “winter-proof.”
E.E. Cummings- page 221
Buffalo Bill’s
The first thing that draws my attention to this poem is the shape that it is in. This poem is not all together it stagers out. The main word that draws my attention is Jesus because it is the one that is the furthest out on the page. The way the author combined words is interesting. It is a good effect because people read and analyze poems by rhythm and by making it all one word it shows that this line is not as important.
