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Comparing Poetry And M. T. Buckley's The Secret Life Of Books

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William Woodsworth one said "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility". Poetry can be an incredibly powerful type of literature that has something more than just words on piece of papers. As it was stated in the poem “The Secret Life Of Books" books have life, it influences people to share their interpretation of a poem. It provides many people different interpretation of life and literature. Each person has different interpretation of poems and that is what that makes poem so powerful and creative. Poems give incredibly powerful feelings to people and that is what makes poems so powerful and creative. Poems use words that are used every day and turn it into an amazing …show more content…

In the poem Birthday, M.T Buckley says” 82nd Newborn, ha ha”. Buckley is using diction and also double entrede so each reader can have their interpretation of the poem. The double entrede is an example of M.T Buckley using diction because he is writing in his own type of way. His is trying to share his idea and he writing the poem in a specific type of way so the poem could be interpreted in multiple ways. In the poem The Secret book of life Stephen Edgar says” To stillness, they do their work through others”. The poet could have said this line in many other clear ways but it was his specific word choices that made this poem and the poem’s structure unique. As a result of his certain word choices and stanza structure, the poem looked like a book sideways; as a result of the poet’s diction, he was able to create a poem that had a unique poem structure. Diction could have many great impacts on the reader, for example diction can create a unique and playful shape for the poem and it could also create a double entrede. As a result of the diction in the poem Birthday and The Secret Book of Life, each reader can understand the poem in many different ways. Also in the poem Birthdays it says” I jumped into the world, not parachute, bootless.” The poem’s diction makes the reader imaginatively experience the things that is stated in the poem. The author certain word choices made us imagine go through the experience ourselves. Imagery and diction in poetry makes people have deep thoughts and imagine the things that is stated in the story, this leads people to increase their intelligence and

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