Ode To Browsing Through The Dark: Poem Analysis

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Michael,
I enjoyed reading your post this week. In the poem, Ode to Browsing the Web”, I feel that the author has a love hate relationship with the internet. When the author mentions “all of this happening in a time no older than your last heartbeat”, I believe that he is letting me know that a feeling of a few minutes in the virtual world is in reality, actually closer to several hours of time (Wicker, 2013). In the poem, “Traveling Through the Dark”, I believe that he understood the norm that takes place in these types of situations, but the unborn fawn caused him to reevaluate the entire norm to determine if there is a better solution (Stafford, 1998). Last week, I had a very difficult time trying to understand the poem, “Wild Geese”

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