Question

Read the lines below from the poem “One Day” by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and answer the question that follows. One day, you will awake from your covering and that heart of yours will be totally mended, and there will be no more burning within. The owl, calling in the setting of the sun and the deer path, all erased. And there will be no more need for love or lovers or fears of losing lovers and there will be no more burning timbers with which to light a new fire, and there will be no more husbands or people related to husbands, and there will be no more tears or reason to shed your tears. Source: Wesley, Patricia Jabbeh. “One Day.” Where the Road Turns. Pittsburgh: Autumn House Press, 2010. Poetry Foundation. Web. 25 July 2011. Which type of poetry does Wesley use when she creates her own structure? free verse enjambment figurative symbolic

Answer 1

We could answer to that question working through the answers and the poem itself. The poem is not a figurative or symbolic because it does not contain a figurative language and symbols respectively in the lights of literary devices. It is not a free verse. The poem does not have a regular rhyme to be a free verse, but it has one difference with enjambment. The latter is the correct answer because it means moving from one line to another without making a stop.

Answer 2

The answer is emjabment. Based on the lines from Patricia Jabbeh Wesley's "One Day", it can be seen that she uses enjabment when creating her own structure. Enjabment, in poetry, refers to the continuation of one poetic line to the next line without the use of punctuation.