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Poetry is an art form that allows the poet to present his or her interpretation of the world around him or her. As American poet Ezra Pound once said, “Literature does not exist in a vacuum.” Examine the poems of one poet and explain how his or her writing developed over the course of his or her life. Contrast the ways in which his or her style, poetic devices, language, and themes were expressed in his or her poems.



the poem

Before you became a cloud, you were an ocean, roiled and
murmuring like a mouth.
You were the shadows of a cloud cross-
ing over a field of tulips.
You were the tears of a man who cried
into a plaid handkerchief.
You were the sky without a hat.
Your
heart puffed and flowered like sheets drying on a line.



And when you were a tree, you listened to the trees and the tree
things trees told you.
You were the wind in the wheels of a red
bicycle.
You were the spidery Mariatattooed on the hairless arm
of a boy in dowtown Houston.
You were the rain rolling off the
waxy leaves of a magnolia tree.
A lock of straw-colored hair
wedged between the mottled pages of a Victor Hugo novel.
A
crescent of soap.
A spider the color of a fingernail.
The black nets
beneath the sea of olive trees.
A skein of blue wool.
A tea saucer
wrapped in newspaper.
An empty cracker tin.
A bowl of blueber-
ries in heavy cream.
White wine in a green-stemmed glass

Answer 1

The poet is very emotional in this poem. His/her's feeling through out the poem keep changing. They used a lot of figurtive language which can tell you a lot about a person. I don't know who the poet is so I can not tell you how their poetry might have developed over their years. I recommend going through tis poem and picking out parts where you see the tone change. Also doing research on the poet would be helpful. Sorry I could not be of more assistence. Hope you have an amazing day! :^)

Answer 2

Answer: Poetry tells us about the vision of the world that one person has. Poets are human beings and evolve as well as life changes. Since poetry is pretty much about feelings then writers don't necessarily have to talk about something they know, but they can say what emotions can these things evoke in them. Poets as novelist are allowed to lie. Actually, poetry is the only place where lies don't have terrible consequences. Experiences in life can take their toll on poets creativity. This is the case of Sandra Cisneros, the author of the poem set as an example. She is a Mexican-American writer. She is best known for her first novel The House on Mango Street (1984) and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories (1991). Her work experiments with literary forms and searches emerging subject positions, which Cisneros herself attributes to growing up in a context of cultural mixture and economic disparity that endowed her with unique stories to tell. Cisneros's childhood provided many experiences she would later draw on as a writer: she grew up as the only daughter in a family of six brothers, which often made her feel lonely, and the constant migration of her family between Mexico and the United States instilled in her the sense of "always being part of two countries ... but not belonging to either culture. "Cisneros's work deals with the formation of Chicana identity, discovering the problems of being caught between Mexican and Anglo-American cultures, facing the hatred against women attitudes present in both these cultures, and experiencing poverty. For her insightful social critique and powerful prose style, Cisneros has accomplished recognition far beyond Chicano and Latino communities, to the extent that The House on Mango Street has been translated worldwide and is taught in American classrooms as a coming-of-age novel.

Cisneros has held a variety of professional positions, working as a teacher, a counselor, a college recruiter, a poet-in-the-schools, and an arts administrator, and has maintained a strong commitment to community and literary causes. In 1998 she established the Macondo Writers Workshop, which provides socially conscious workshops for writers, and in 2000 she founded the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Foundation, which awards talented writers connected to Texas.[5] Cisneros currently resides in Mexico