Poetry+-+Dabney+Stuart

The Soup Jar Group:Sean, Khain, and Craig 1. The poem represents how something so small can effect others so immensely. However, it still basically is just some people struggling, with a task of what they might do daily, to open a soup jar. 2.Alliteration-"Into place the tricky gadget guaranteed" Assonance-"He tried warm water, a dishcloth, the heel of a shoe," Imagery-"I had to help. Gripped the jar while he cursed into place the tricky gadget guaranteed to open anything, then gave it all he had. I jerked my hand, and a hunk of glass, back when it burst." Setting-Kitchen/Dining room Metaphor-"So small a thing-some broken glass, a scar." 3. The structure is pretty straightforward, and written in chronological order. The tone is serious, in a way, and comes of, pherhaps, as bitter. The author's style is to tell the story in a simple,straightforward way, in which readers can relate to quite easily. 4. This poem is southern because they come across a simple problem, but use a more complicated solution to solve it. 5. Direct

Mining in Killdeer Alley Group:Sean, Khain, and Craig 1.Life comes and goes. For example, when the baby is born into the world,meanwhile, the grandfather is at his death bed. 2.Alliteration-"One and then another they settled before me like flakes of air." Assonance-"Shadows, the grass tufts, gravel, merging" Imagery-"Halfway up the hill, their splayed toes sketching" Metaphor-"The sun shattered into gravel," Simile-"To wobble on dumb stilts like earthbound creatures," 3.It is built in a way so that the reader can piece together the story as they read along. The poem is both serious and mysterious. It is written in an indirect way, yet, it still comes of as to the point. 4.It is reminiscent of southern poetry, because of the way the narrator speaks and the expasion of words/sentences in the poem. 5.Mysterious

Ariella and Kayli:

"The Soup Jar" by Dabney Stuart

1. This poem is about the "bottled up" relationship and feelings between the son and son. 2. **Alliteration:** warm water ( 2nd line), gadget guaranteed ( 6th line), seven stitches (10th line) 3. The structure of the author is semi-formal, but not distinctly so. He uses some individuality with the structure, through he follows the basic four lines per stanza structure. He does not have a rhyme scheme, but he has some rhythm.
 * Imagery:** "I had to help. Gripped the jar while he cursed." ( 5th line) It creates an image of a son holding the jar, while the father curses out of frustration.
 * Metaphor:** " So small a thing-some broken glass, a scar."
 * The meaning of that quote from the poem shows the harsh feelings of that day when the emotions and feelings are so compacted that it busts and leaves a scar.
 * Setting:** The story takes place in their home. Either in their kitchen or dining room area.
 * Symbol:** The jar represents the intangible wall between the two characters that always seems tangible because of how closed up they both are.
 * End Stop:** The first line and last line of the first stanza, the first, third, and last line of the second stanza, all lines of the third stanza, the second and last line of the last stanza.

The tone of the author is angry at parts, frustrated at other times, and longing at others.

The style of the author is also individually structured.

4. The poem is southern because of the conflicts they both have towards each other.

5. The poem in one word is: loss.

" Mining in Killdeer Alley" by Dabney Stuart

1. This poem is about the gift of birds every day his wife was pregnant until the child was born. It is also about the gift of life for the dying grandfather. 2. **Alliteration**: sketching shadows (3rd & 4th lines), sun shattered (27th line) This quote from the poem is sort of foreshadowing and representing the birth of the child (the birds coming) and the slowly ceasing life of the grandfather 9the birds leaving).
 * Imagery**: "their splayed toes sketching shadows" (3rd & 4th); the image created is that of birds flying over the ground and their feet leaving shadows, "her shoulder blades As she bent awkwardly before the sink, mornings" (19th & 20th lines); the image created here is a pregnant woman bending over the sink, her stomach protruding, "The light was broken All over the blanket, and our child swam in his glasses With pieces of that broken light" (24th, 25th, & 26th lines); the images created here are the grandfather seeing his grandson, for the first time, illuminated in light, "The sun shattered in the gravel, the gray veins Of his impeccable wrist" (28th, 29th, & 30th); the image created is the family arriving home and coming to a very sunny pavement, which showed the baby's perfect wrist.
 * Metaphor**: " They came down from theor marvelous fluency To wobble on dumb stilts Like earthbound, hindered by strangeness. The shadows were blue and voluminous, and their toes lost, And the pronouns confused, and they shied and took flight"

3. 4. This poem is southern because of the setting and the joy of nature and life. 5. The one word to describe this poem is: reflective.
 * Setting**: Outside of the house, inside of the house, and in the hospital
 * Similes**: "One, and then another, they settled before me like flakes of air", "Feathering my passage Like wings".
 * Symbol**: The birds represent the life of the child and the slowly ending life of the grandfather.
 * Personification**: "They came down from their marvelous fluency To wobble on dumb stilts"; birds can't walk on stilts
 * End Stop**:There is one at the end of second line, end of fourth line, end of seventh line, end of tenth line, end of fifteenth line, end of twenty-first line, middle of twenty-fourth line, end of twenty-sixth line, end of twenty-seventh line, end of thirtieth line, end of thirty-first, and the end of thirty-second
 * **Structure**: It is free-verse, with rhythm, and it is not very formal
 * **Tone**: The tone is joyful and sad
 * **Style**: The author uses a lot of imagery, similes, and metaphors to convey his message