#20

I know everyone in the class is probably going to a critical blog on the sestina poem because I know that was the most horrible thing I have ever had to for a school assignment. So I am going to talk about how much I disliked the anaphora poems. In the packet this week, I noticed that there was not information about the anaphora poems. I guess because it was self explanatory but I decided to look more into these poems

• Anaphora in general is used of coreferential relations, where one element in a sentence takes its meaning or reference from another.
• Famous poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual and vivid images.
• The use of strong word association changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to literary works.

Those were just some interesting facts about Anaphora poems that I found as I was browsing the Internet and I thought it may or may not be useful. I would like to look at one of the Anaphora poems from our packet in more detail. The Burning Heart it was a good read but the repetition is very contradictory leaves the reader puzzled about who is the speaker and who is directing the thoughts to. I really just didn't understand that and I am the type of person that likes to know all the facts so I can put the poem together. Also at the end of the poem when it says Do you regret your life? that is question to me that as a reader you can't answer because you don not know the background information.