Under+the+Vulture+Tree,+David+Bottoms

//Under the Vulture-Tree// consists of three stanzas with the first stanza including six lines, the second including eight lines, and the third also including eight lines. This poem is a free verse poem, as there is no rhyme scheme. This poem is mostly keeping up a constant flow, but it varies at times.
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This poem uses descriptive and sophisticated words to convey a visualization in the reader's mind. Examples include: "...calling them what I'd never called them, what they are, those dwarfed transfiguring angels..." and "...amazed by the one slow wing beat, the endless dihedral drift..."
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Personal Response** //Under the Vulture-Tree// to me is a wierd poem, although it actually is very good to me. I think that the way David Bottoms talks about the vultures is like he actually sees the them as something graceful for a few moments in time. Like he sees what other people most of the time over look. -katie_sighs In the second stanza in line ten, there is a simile. "...ugly as a human heart." I think the author was comparing the vultures' beaks to a human heart because the sight of a heart isn't too pleasant looking. Theme: I think that the message that the author is trying to send is to appreciate people and things that handle the disgusting things that we don't have to. Such as vultures cleaning up the decayed bodies of dead animals and maybe things as janitors, Garbage people and what not. ~//Brianna//
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