POETRY RECITAL
Rita Dove is an author from Ohio. She is known for writing historical and political events. Unlike the usual, she uses the enjambment form in her poems and usually she defies the beliefs of the society, or in other words, blunt.
An enjambment has an incomplete thought or could be a phrase in a line and continues unto the next.
Here is one of her poem entitled Heart to Heart.
As to our interpretation, this poem breaks our usual view unto the heart. The heart had always been related to an individual’s feelings but in this poem, it is stated that the heart is just an organ that helps us be alive.
On the ending, it contradicts on how it started. This tells that if we love someone, we offer them our hearts and in accordance with this, they have to accept us for we who are and how we feel, despite everything.
The next one is a poem by an American poet Billy Collins.
Here is one of his poems entitled Silence.
This poem tells us that silence is very much acknowledged, and it showed how the speaker feels about silence.
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