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MY MOTHER AT SIXTY SIX, , Poetic Devices, , Ashen like that of corpse, , Simile, , But after the airport’s security check, , Alliteration, , Pale as a late winter’s moon, , Simile, , Felt that old familiar ache, , Alliteration, , But all I said was see you soon, , Alliteration, , Smile and smile and smile, , Repetition
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AN ELEMENTARY CLASSROOM IN A SLUM, Poetic Devices, Far far, , Repetition, , Like rootless weeds, , Simile, , Paper seeming boy, , Metaphor, , Rat’s eyes, , Metaphor, , In tree room, other than this, , Alliteration, , at dawn, civilized dome, , Alliteration, , the world its world, , Repetition, , Narrow street, , Metaphor, , Sealed in with lead a sky, , Metaphor, , Stars of wisdom, , Metaphor, , Far far from rivers, , Repetition, , Ships and Sun, , Alliteration, , Ships and Sun and love, , Repetition, , Cramped holes, , Metaphor
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Endless night, , Metaphor, , Like bottle bits on stones, , Simile, , As big as doom, , Metaphor, , All of their time, , Alliteration, , Space are foggy slums, , Alliteration, , As big as doom, , Metaphor, , That shut upon their lives like catacombs Alliteration, like catacombs, , Simile, , Break O break open till they break open, , Repetition, , And let their tongues, , Alliteration
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KEEPING QUIET, Poetic Devices, we will count, , Alliteration, , we will all keep, , Alliteration, , not move our arms much, , Alliteration, , without rush without engines, , Repetition, , we would all be, , Alliteration, , Sudden strangeness, , Alliteration, , would not harm whales, , Alliteration, , man gathering salt, , Symbol, , his hurt hands, , Symbol, , would look at his hurt hands, , Alliteration, , wars with gas, wars with fire, , Repetition, , Green wars, , Symbol, , wars with gas,, , Symbol, , wars with fire, , Symbol
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Poetic Devices, would put on clean clothes, , Alliteration, , walk about with their brothers, , Alliteration, , Clean clothes, , Symbol, , In the shade, , Symbol, , what I want, , Alliteration, , Life is what it is about, , Repetition, , I want no truck with death, , Alliteration, , If we were not so single minded, , Alliteration, , earth can teach us, , personification
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A THING OF BEAUTY, Poetic Devices, Bower quiet, , Metaphor, , and health and quiet breathing, , Repetition, , are we wreathing, , Alliteration, , a flowery band to bind us, , Alliteration, , some shape of beauty, , Alliteration, , Such the sun, the moon, , Repetition, , Such the sun, the moon, , Alliteration, , sprouting a shady boon, , Alliteration, , sprouting a shady boon, , Alliteration, , That for themselves, , Alliteration, , a cooling covert, , Alliteration, , Mighty dead, , Oxymoron, , Endless fountain, , Hyperbole
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A ROADSIDE STAND, Poetic Devices, The little old house was out with, , Alliteration, , The little old house was out with a little new, shed, , Repetition, , A roadside stand that too pathetically pled,, , Alliteration, , A roadside stand that too pathetically pled,, , Personification, , The flower of cities, , Metaphor, , with N turned wrong and S turned wrong, , Repetition, , wild berries in wooden quarts, , Alliteration, , golden squash with silver warts, , Alliteration, , Or beauty rest in a beautiful mountain scene, You have the money, but if you want to be, mean, You have the money, but if you want to, be mean, party in power is said to be keeping, , Alliteration, , Repetition, , Alliteration, Alliteration
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It is in the news that all these pitiful kin, , Greedy good doers, , Alliteration, , Alliteration, , beneficent beasts of prey, , Alliteration, , how to sleep they sleep all day, , Repetition, , Sometimes I feel myself I can, , Repetition, , The sadness that lurks near the open, window there, , Personification, , That waits all day in almost open prayer, squeal of brakes, the sound of a stopping, car, one did stop, but only to plow up, , Alliteration, , Alliteration, Alliteration, , And another to ask the way, , Alliteration, , ask the way to where it was bound, , Alliteration, , They couldn’t ; they had none,, , Repetition, , No, in country money, the country scale of, gain,, , Repetition
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voice of the country seems to complain, , Metaphor, , I wonder how I should like you to come to me Repetition, to put me gently out of my pain, , Alliteration, , AUNT JENIFER’S TIGERS, Poetic Devices, Bright topaz, , Metaphor, , Fingers Fluttering, , Alliteration, , Ivory needle, , Metaphor, , weight of Uncle’s wedding, band, , Alliteration, , her terrified hands, , Synecdoche, , her terrified hands, , Alliteration
