Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Sign Analysis of Erika Meitner's "Blow"

This poem is pretty wild and racy and that's why I enjoy it. It also offers a lot of little tricks to try to employ in your own writing. I hope to one day be able to write these long sentences she executes over and over in her poems. Also, I hope she reads this one Tuesday. It's awesome.

  • Use of words with similar sounds, best illustrated by lines 20,21 -- "lick and suck; slide and glide" Creates a rhythm when read.
  • The second stanza is beautifully rhythmic until abruptly cut off by the last line, "my hips towards what?" Cutting the rhythm out immediately creates tension.
  • Uses a real, current, news story to create a metaphor for her own topic. Referring to the Colorado wildfires from a few years back, even including such factual evidence as 130,000 acres. 
  • Use of rhyming are found at the end of the poem.
  • Repetition of certain phrases and/or words. I.E. - "I want," "down," and "Mine" 
  • Short lines
  • Last stanza is ordered differently with a space down the middle.
  • Use of dashes 

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