My Three Favorite Poems: Copperhead Road, And The Moonshine

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My Three Favorite Poems
I picked three of my favorite works from several poems and songs to evaluate on why I really like them. Each one of them are very talented individuals who make great works of art.
One of my favorite songs is “Copperhead Road” by Steve Earle. I really like how Steve Earle used an Archetype when he frequently used the words Copperhead Road. He also used imagery when the narrator said, “You could smell the whiskey burnin' down Copperhead Road” for the people who knows what whiskey smells like, it reminds them how good the smell of Moonshine is.
The narrator used a Cliché because he used the name, Copperhead Road several times. Also, the setting takes place in the rural part of Johnson County, Tennessee in the Appalachian
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The narrator enlists in the Army on his birthday, believing he will soon be drafted "They draft the white trash first 'round here anyway", and serves two tours of duty in Vietnam. Once he returns home, he decides to use the Copperhead Road land to grow marijuana, rather than produce moonshine when the narrator said, "I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico." Having learned a few tricks from the Viet Cong "I learned a thing or two from Charlie" while fighting overseas, he resolves not to be caught by the DEA, specifically meaning that he has set up booby traps of the kind employed by the Communist enemy.
Another great poem is Mountain Boomer that was written by Howard Starks. I’ve always heard about Mountain Boomer lizards my whole life, and it made me think about how they acted around people. In this poem, the narrator describes a lizard that people have told him that the lizard was venomous. The narrator says, “I heard a guy at Shidler / yelled four whole days before he died” describing that he has only heard stories about people getting hurt from these lizards. Which, it is like what your parents have told you, so you will stay away from things they do not want you to be

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