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Probably not intended as a personal outing. But you know. Maybe.
The skunks were rather underrepresented in my interpretation; the mother skunk's nurturing side makes them the characters with the most enviable familial ties in the poem.
"I myself am hell" is a line from Paradise Lost.
This is an example of confessional poetry because it is a glimpse into the life of the poet himself.
The tone is lonely, cynical, melancholy and hopeless.
Acting Like A Tree - Jonathan Aaron
"How to Make a Company Party Bearable and Be with the Wolves"
I wasn't actually far off on this one. I neglected to use the word "anthropomorphism" and note the alliteration in "red ribbon of a river," and I didn't know that there was a tradition of humans becoming trees that pertains to a name I don't think I caught that sounded like Avid.* But this guy. He didn't need to be with people because he was rich inside his head.
Because You Asked about the Line Between Prose and Poetry - Howard Nemerov
The title is interesting because it's a sentence fragment and creates a conversational tone, and the reader expects an answer to the question he never actually asked, and he probably expects it in the form of a definition.
The last stanza is a rhyming couplet, and prose falls while poetry flies.
Also, it was recommended that we read Emily Dickinson's poem that begins with the line, "A bird came down the walk."
*Ovid. Metamorphosis. That was silly.
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