And Yet The Books
Published on Nov 20, 2015
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Structure of Poem
- Medium length; pretty long lines; mixture of enjambed and end stopped lines
- Free verse
- 1 stanza, 16 lines
- No end rhyme or internal rhyme
- Some cadence
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SIMILE: "AND YET THE BOOKS WILL BE THERE ON THE SHELVES, SEPARATE BEINGS, THAT APPEARED ONCE, STILL WET AS SHINING CHESTNUTS UNDER A TREE IN AUTUMN,"
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Imagery: "In spite of fires on the horizon, castles blown up, Tribes on the march, planets in motion."
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Personification: " 'We are,' they said, even as their pages Were being torn out,"
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Books will still be here long after we are gone to recall history and events and to tell our stories after we are gone. Books are basically immortal.
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Related song: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
Milosz, Czeslaw. "And Yet the Books." Trans. Robert Hass. Reading the World: Contemporary Literature From Around the Globe. Ed. Carol Francis. Logan, IA: Perfection Learning, 2012. eBook.
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