For Tuesday

Read the following two poems and write a response for each in which you focus primarily on the poems' language. The idea here is to simply note what seem to you are likely important, striking, unexpected, or surprising language elements from specific diction to devices to syntactical choices. Venture your view of the meaning of these specific elements, but leave aside developing a 'grand theory' about the poems' overall meanings. One poem is called "Daddy," by Sylvia Plath, and the other is "In the Waiting Room," by Elizabeth Bishop. Click on the poem title for the link. Your response should be at least one page per poem.