Power by Audre Lorde Poetry Foundation

Over the years it has been said that diamonds formed from the metamorphism of coal According to Geologycom, we now know this is untrue “Coal has rarely played a role in the formation of diamonds In fact, most diamonds that have been dated are much older than Earth’s first land plants – the source material of coal!

We have what I believe to be slave imagery here with “… words like stapled wagers / in a perforated book-buy and sign and tear apart” On one level the words are just stand-ins for something else – like placing a bet – but this buying and selling of words relates to the buying and selling of people, to

The wind is thus a symbol of power or force When the wind blows it breaks the shutters of the windows It throws down the books on the shelf The wind god windows them and crushes the

The poet saw the wind breaking the shutters of the windows and throwing books from the shelf *I don’t see any “I”, if you’re talking about the poem Win

A poem is a piece of writing that uses imaginative words to share ideas, emotions or a story with the reader A person who writes a poem is called a poet Many poems have words or phrases that sound good together when they are read aloud

Examples of Poem in Literature

• Example #1: While you Decline to Cry (By Ō no Yasumaro) Haiku Poem
• Example #2: The Song of Hiawatha (By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) Epic Poem
• Example #3: After the Sea-Ship (By Walt Whitman) Free Verse Poem
• Example #4: La Belle Dame sans Merci (By John Keats) Ballad

English Language Learners Definition of poem : a piece of writing that usually has figurative language and that is written in separate lines that often have a repeated rhythm and sometimes rhyme

Answer: a poem is simply a piece of writing in short lines Explanation: it also comprises of rhyme words and literal felling of idea of poe

A good poem takes you to the city, to the sea, to the heart of any and all matters; you see it, taste it, belong to it A good poem is a menagerie of craft; a spinning of sound, word choice, alliteration, rhythm and often rhyme

Mood is the feeling created by the poet for the reader Tone is the feeling displayed by the author toward the subject of the poem Example: Some words that can describe the mood of a poem might be: romantic, realistic, optimistic, pessimistic, gloomy, mournful, sorrowful, etc

@Moeknows step-by-step guide to commenting on poetry

1. Read the poem (they’re often quite short)
2. Read it again (think about the words and pay attention to the details)
3. Formulate an understanding of what the poem means to you
4. Decide whether or not you like it (

Death is personified in the poem That being said, the role of immortality, personified as well, must “go along” for the ride” given women of the time were not allowed to be with a “man” alone if not married to him Therefore, the role of immortality is one of a chapero

Poets use figures of speech in their poems Several types of figures of speech exist for them to choose from Five common ones are simile, metaphor, personification, hypberbole, and understatement

metaphor, personification, kenning, oxymoron, prosopopoeia, zeugma, conceit, hyperbole, irony, simile, synecdoche, exaggeration, metonymy

: a form of expression (such as a simile or metaphor) used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener