When seen in connection to the dumpster and the night, the "open and shut" reference also makes more sense. The dumpster opens when something is thrown in, and shuts again to keep the garbage or the smell from escaping. The smoker opens his or her Continue Reading...
He knew his father wouldn't approve. In "What I Wouldn't Do," the narrator tells of a whole string of "drifter" jobs, which occupy her until she moves on to another. The jobs are quite different one from the other. She doesn't seem to hate these jo Continue Reading...
Poetry That Grabs Your Attention I agree with you that poetry, by virtue of its compressed form, needs to grab the reader's attention immediately in the way that prose does not. While readers of a novel might be willing to read a book for thirty or Continue Reading...
Poetry is often used to express emotion at its most romantic and infatuated, but sometimes it is used to describe the pillars of life behind that romance -- the sexuality, insecurity, devotion, and fidelity. Dorianne Laux, Anne Bradstreet, and Barbar Continue Reading...
