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[childrenofthedivine]

PORDVENAU KOBO.

DRUNIE.

[ur-little-brother]

Luffy shift woaw

[ratbits]

"Ghost House" by Robert Frost

Reflecting on what isn’t there. “Abandoned Cellar” by Nicky Sykes I really didn’t plan for today’s poem to be such an on-the-nose continuation of this week’s earlier poems about old houses and vanishing places. Maybe it’s a coincidence. Maybe it’s synchronicity. Maybe i’m just that predictable. I truly couldn’t tell you how i came across Robert Frost’s “Ghost House” this morning. I found…

"Ghost House" by Robert Frost

[jmsapphire]

She saved me from heavenly fire

He saved me from hellish cold ire

Yet I jumped back in flames

and the cold and felt pains

And made my situation more dire.

- e.j.l | tolerating stupid idiot me

[tuneful9]

Horses

The horses stand before me, still like the trees around me. In silver light, in the fallen night, unflinching gaze upon me. What dreams they do filch from me, these oily beasts that watch me? On three legs they stand on warm promised land, to brave and to suffer me.

[thethiefthatbails-blog]

"Will You be my valentine?"

EHEHHE // @thiefsguardian

“Do you just want me to buy you candy?”

[paintingpoems]

“There Was A Young Girl From St. Paul” by Anonymous

There was a young girl from St. Paul, Wore a newspaper-dress to a ball. The dress caught on fire And burned her entire Front page, sporting section and all.

The formal structure of this poem exists not in solitude, but in conduction with other elements to guide us towards the meaning and purpose that the anonymous author intended. 

This poem has an anapestic meter, which means that each foot has two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. This type of meter is paired with the limerick form of this poem, creating a “sing song effect” within the short stanza. However, the actual meaning of the poem is far from cheery and light. The context, illustrated through phrases such as “young girl from St. Paul” and “newspaper-dress to a ball,” paints a far less picturesque image in the reader’s mind. The girl attending the ball’s dress catches on fire, burning the entire front page. This contrast between the upbeat meter and the dismal scene presented in the poem creates an ironic message that resonates within the audience, even though it is a short poem in comparison to others that we have read. But is the author even speaking about a young girl from St. Paul? While that may be possible, the speaker may also be discussing the implications of newspapers within society or how the wealthy perceive writers, as the girl is wearing a newspaper dress to a seemingly fancy ball and is thus burned. The ability to look at this short poem from a variety of different angles contributes to the effective use of formal structure. It may be brief, but it is full of information. 

[sterrenvanger]

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