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How is the shape of the poem “Pears” connected to its meaning

How is the shape of the poem “Pears” connected to its meaning-example-1
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Answer: the poem's shape emphasizes the similarities between pears and the people the poem describes.

Explanation: Just took it;)

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The answer that is most likely to be correct is the last one: the poem's shape emphasizes the similarities between pears and the people the poem describes.

However, even that option seems to a bit lacking. The shape is complementing the poem's meaning. Why would so many things look like pears? - the speaker asks. Delightful things and people all have some kind of pear-shaped characteristic: the womb, breasts, the cello... The author finds a sort of sensuality in the shape, as she says 'Some say it was a pear Eve ate'.

The shape of the poem comes to show that. The poem, short as it is, is also sensuous, like a woman, like music, like the sweet fruit it alludes to.

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