Poem

The poem that I picked this week is the poem I taught, "Wallflowers." I really liked this poem. The first thing that stuck out to me was the weird words at the bottom of the poem. When someone has a disease that makes them think they are an animal which totally didn't fit the poem at all. Then after I read it another time I realized that the words at the bottom were the examples of words the whole poem was about. They were these wallflower words that no one uses. And the author really personifies these words as people. She gives them these human characteristics. When I thought of wallflowers it was those middle school kids at the dance just waiting for someone to pick them to dance with. That's exactly what the author wanted to have the reader perceive for these words. They aren't used very much and are waiting on the side for someone to use them more. This poem was really that straight forward. I'm sorry it was on Monday but i was visiting colleges this weekend and didn't have access to a computer till I got home!