It is interesting to say the least, when reading this poem. If you recite this poem in a very serious manner, the poem becomes sort of dark, and it is as if you are an experienced writer and poet giving advice to another poet. Also Nikki’s use of imagery and using her own personal life, like being a mother, puts you into her shoes. There is also the use of past and foreign images like typewriters that put you into her timeframe. When you recite it in a different voices, the mood and tone is bound to change. If you recite it comically, it’s as if it were sarcasm, and the whole thing was a joke, making fun of poetry, and poets.
