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Chryss Yost- Lai With Sounds of Skin
The title of this poem gives the poem a sexual feel. The poem does have a rhyme scheme and it is A,A,B,A,A,B,A,A and then in the second stanza A,A,C,A,A,C,A,A. This poem is a octet . He also uses a lot of alliteration for example “tightly, twisted, thin.” This poem consists of eight stanzas. The author does not ever specify what he is talking about in the poem, he uses symbolism. For example instead of saying that they are naked he says “Shall we dress in skin.” This keeps the reader interested because she has to keep reading to figure out what the author is talking about. In the second stanza of the poem he stresses the “like will, like has been.” He does this because it shows that the wool is unraveling. The wool unraveling just like the girl. Throughout the whole poem the yarn is being compared to the girl. This really becomes clear in the end when he states “skin to skein to skin.” Showing that he was comparing a bulk of yard (skein) to an actual human (skin). The last line of the poem is kind of like a sator or epiphany because the reader then realizes exactly what the author is comparing.
Emily Dickinson- I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
In this poem you can tell the Author, Emily is feeling alone. She wants to find someone else who is lonely so they can both be lonely together. She then goes in the second stanza starts being sarcastic by saying “How dreary – to be- somebody!” She compares it to being a frog and known creature to a bog which is almost like a dead frog or a waste of some sort. She says that it would be nice to have people know your name instead of being “Nobody.” In every line of this poem there are caesura’s which is a pause in a line. This makes the poem feel as if someone is actually talking to you. The poem does have a rhyme scheme in the first four lined stanza the first two lines are a rhyming couplet. In the second stanza the rhyme scheme is A, B, C, B. The words frog and bog are rhyming. This poem turns out to be ironic because Emily Dickenson does make a name for herself and is a well known poet.
