About the poem use TRUE (T) or FALSE (F):( ) Describes a spe...
For the question use the poem below:
Eating Poetry
(Mark Strand)
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
The librarian does not believe what she sees.
Her eyes are sad
and she walks with her hands in her dress.
The poems are gone.
The light is dim.
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.
Their eyeballs roll,
their blond legs burn like brush.
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.
She does not understand.
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams.
I am a new man.
I snarl at her and bark.
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.
About the poem use TRUE (T) or FALSE (F):
( ) Describes a speaker who is literally eating poetry.
( )The most important aspect to consider in understanding this poem is the metaphor behind the act of eating a poem.
( ) The action of eating poetry is for the poet something that makes him happy.
( ) Strand uses short sentences and highlights one of the most common types of simple English sentences: subject, verb, object.
Respectively, the order is: