Precis: "Fight"

In her poem “Fight,” Laurel Blossom asserts with a carefree tone and through usage of opposites and rhyme schemes that it is perfectly fine for friends or even a couple to not get along on certain issues because difference is what makes them unique. Throughout the poem, Blossom puts two clashing ideas together, such as “married” and “free”, “hot” and “cool” and much more to show how different two people can be.  One person likes to be more careful and hard working, while the other enjoys the pleasures of life. One works in the garden while the other swims, but that is still fine. Their differences allow for a great relationship. Additionally the poem follows an interesting rhyme scheme, with every three lines rhyming with each other. These rhymes break the poem up into five different sections. The first two sections focus on the two different people as individuals, but there is a unique shift in the third the section. The third section starts to discuss both characters together. The point of this shift is to show how different people can still coexist. Through antithesis and rhyme scheme, Laurel Blossom shows how two different peas can still live in the same pod.

Precis: "The Blue Bowl"

In “The Blue Bowl”, Jane Kenyon generates a downcast tone, describing the death of a childhood cat through the use of similes, structure, and alliteration to depict how painful death can be. She starts off and ends off using similes. First, she compares burying the cat to primitives, and later she compares the reminder of a robin to an annoying neighbor who can never say the right words. Their cat obviously died while trying to eat a bird, and the robin chirping at the end of the poem is sad reminder to the cause of the death of their beloved pet. Kenyon also manages to shed light on the pain felt by the children through the usage of alliteration. The words “buried”, “bowl”, and “barehanded” show how the children felt empty as they laid the cat to rest. Additionally, the structure and breakup of the stanzas has no set form because death isn’t predictable. It doesn’t follow a pattern; it's erratic and pops up out of nowhere. The key similes, alliteration, and structure set throughout the poem reveal how surprising and hard death can be.