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27 Cards in this Set
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An absolutely Ordinary Rainbow |
Les Murray metaphor of emotions |
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I am a Cameraman |
Douglas Dunn All we see are externals, life is complex |
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Cow |
Selma Hill Wanting to become an unnoticed cow- extended metaphor |
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The Death of the Loch Ness Monster |
Gwendolyn Macewen Humans are the monster- the Loch Ness might not have been a monster at all, just different from us |
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Raisin Pumpernickle |
Marge Piercy bread and love fill you up and nourish the soul- imagery |
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Bitch |
Carolyn Kizer Female dog as herself, and the new wife |
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Because |
James McAuley A reflection of the past, he is this way because of his lack of affection growing up |
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The Idea of Ancestry |
Etheridge Knight Reflection, regret, fear for the future Apologizing to his family, wants a child |
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They'll Say "She Must be From Another Country" |
Imtiaz Dharker Danger of exclusion- then accepts her differences |
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The End and The Beginning |
Wislawa Szymorska At the end of one war, another begins- no one cares about the aftermath |
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Ophelia's Confession |
Tracey Herd Relating to Princess Diana, and Shakespeare Wanting to go in peace- her decision |
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The Woman Hanging from the 13th Floor Window |
Joy Harjo Extended metaphor: hanging on the edge, trying not to conform to American ways |
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The Fish |
Elizabeth Bishop Imagery Becomes to respect the Fish and lets it go |
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One Art |
Elizabeth Bishop The art of losing and of poetry |
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in Just |
E.E. Cummings Written like a child- expresses the loss of innocence |
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986 |
Emily Dickinson Encounter with a snake- personified the snake
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The Theme for English B |
Langston Hughes Connecting the struggles of one black boy to the struggles of the entire race |
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Woodchucks |
Maxine Kumin Shows how easily we can turn violent in human nature- references to the Holocaust |
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I Go Back to May 1937 |
Sharon Olds Daughter resentful of her parents-unhappy childhood |
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AmE'rica |
Richard Blanco |
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America |
Tony Hoagland |
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Let American be America Again |
Langston Hughes |
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Body and Soul |
Andrew Marvel |
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Introduction to Poetry |
Billy Collins |
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Ars Poetica |
Archibald Macleish |
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Eating Poetry |
Mark Strand |
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Poem for Daughter |
Anne Stevenson The bond between a mother and a daughter |
