1. “Poetry Should Ride the Bus” by Ruth Forman is filled with great imagery. She gives a very clear description of a polka dot dress, a yellow crack house, and bright red lipstick practicing kisses in the mirror to impress the men around the corner. As soon as I read it images of the suburbs of a big city rushed through me mind. Through her examples of what poetry should be I got that rather than telling us what it should be she was actually telling us all the things it could be. Poetry is universal and can be appreciated by all different kinds of people from all different walks of life. There is not just one way one right way to write poetry because everyone has different taste and that is what I think Ruth Forman was trying to convey to us.
2. Patricia Smith’s “What It’s Like to Be a Black Girl (for Those of You Who Aren’t) is about a woman who is very self-conscious about her ethnicity. She is trying so hard to be someone who she is not, by “It’s dropping food coloring/ in your eyes to make them blue and suffering/ their burn in silence.” And “wearing a lot of while.” The imagery in theses lines are very intense this creates a feeling of longing. This woman wants so badly to be white that she tries to change the color of her eyes and cover up her black skin with white clothes.
I found…show more content… In “The Unkindest Cut” J. Patrick Lewis exaggerates that severity of a paper cut. He compares a paper cut to knives, axes and guillotines. He explains that although knives and axes may harm and guillotines may be painful, the pain from a paper cut far outweighs them all. His reasoning is that a paper cut is usually unexpected and comes out of nowhere. Whereas guillotine would be planned and you would surly know what about happen. Axes and knives on the other hand may be surprises as well but usually there is some sort of confrontation that leads to the violence. The author describes a paper cut to be unkind because it is a pain that comes from something as harmless as
