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Analysis Of The Poem 'Three Haiku' By Pat Mora

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Lyric Poetry

I have chosen a free verse (uncoiling) by Pat Mora as well as a haiku (Three Haiku) translated by Daniel C. Buchanan as my 2 forms of lyric poetry. In the free verse, the form allows the speaker to send a vivid picture of a tornado by using great detail. Lots of imagery and metaphor is used in her poem. This form does not have a set structure. It is written in multiple stanzas of different lengths. None of the lines in each stanza line up in any way. Every line has its own detail of what the tornado entails. The way she shows her readers the type of storm is by her play on words “she spews gusts and thunder” in addition, “howling leaves off trees”.

In Three Haiku which are a set of three different haiku written by 2 different
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