In the poem, Burning a Book, by William Stafford, is a poem describing a burning book, and then going to more dept of what it means. In the poem Stafford says, "More disturbing than book ashes are whole libraries that no one got around to writing." The meaning of this is that burning books is not as terrible as not writing them at all. Stafford is trying to say that if you have an idea for a book and you do not write the book, or start it, but never finish, then that is worse then burning a book that's already written. He also says , "If a book isn't written, no one needs to burn it---- ignorance can dance in the absence of fire." This is meaning that if you do not write book then it can not be burned, so instead of fire burning it, the lack of knowledge is burning the unwritten book. Do you agree with Stafford?
Answer:
Not sure what you are looking for due to I do not see the choices. Here are some ideas to assist you with your answer.
Explanation:
The poem opens with an oxymoron - the speaker calls self Nobody. Note the capital N that would refer to it being a proper noun. Same as if you were to list your name... It also uses figurative imagery. Read about how "Somebody" is like a frog. Frogs are loud and they croak loud. This is a lyric. It is about her own reclusive personality. Rhythm uses dashes and a simile to describe herself.
Note: She uses simile, hyperbole - exaggeration, allusion, and the idiosyncratic punctuation that includes the dashes.
The adjective phrase "am sending" modifies the word "I"
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Imagists believed that poems should have "no ideas but in things." In other words, they would described powerful images, and instead of explaining what those images meant, they would let the reader decide what the meaning or value of those images might be.
Imagists were especially fond of inviting the reader to recognize how very different sorts of images can actually be really similar. Ezra Pound famously did this with his short poem "In a Station of the Metro," which associates "faces in the crowd" with "petals on a wet, black bough."
The poem in your question does something very similar by associating the cat's footprints in the snow with the blossoming flowers of a plum tree. The writer wants you to recognize the odd visual similarity of the footprints and the flowers, ideally to show how there's a kind of cosmic connectedness in the world by (because two very different things end up being really similar).
That's why I think your best answer is A.
