to his family, which he calls "Old folks" in the refrain of each stanza. The trail he usually takes to reach home he has named "the Christmas trail," because it is a special ride heralding a happy reunion.from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Badger Clark's "The Christmas Trail"
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He continues his modern convenience bashing by telling the promising poet to avoid "screens." In addition to television screens, these "screens" would include computer screens, one would suppose. But then he says, "Stay away from anything/that obscures the place it is in." He seems to suggest that even decorative screens, such as room dividers, are to be avoided also.
He then remarks, "There are no unsacred places;/there are only sacred places/and desecrated places."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Berry's "How To Be a Poet"
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After hearing the price, "A thousand trees would come to thirty dollars," the speaker lets the reader know that at the point he knew he never meant to sell them. The city merchant then drops out of the dialogue, leaving it a mystery exactly how the speaker said no and what the man’s response might have been. The speaker does say what he believed about haggling over price: "Never show surprise!"
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Frost's "Christmas Trees"
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When the Muse forsakes him, as she often does, he promises that he will not continue to call her "sweet beloved name." He will allow her to vanish, in case he "should do it wrong." If the resulting sonnet becomes "too much profane," he does not want his Muse to suffer the blame, for he knows that he alone is responsible for the errors, while the Muse is solely responsible for the motivation and inspiration.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 89
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The speaker then commands the Muse not to return again to cause him grief, for he knows and avers that he will be able to soldier on; he will escape the "sorrow." But he knows how love-turned-to-hate wants to add insult to injury. He commands his fickle Muse, "Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,/To linger out a purpos’d overthrow."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 90
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The speaker begins by celebrating the function of the physical parts of the rose that keeps its physical body alive and growing: "They did their best/And they are blest--/The sap, the shoots,/The little leaves and roots." The speaker/writer changes the term "blessed" to "blest," thereby doubling the rime from a mere sound rime to include a sight rime. The double rime strengthens the emphasis of the idea of the Divine working through these vital parts of the plant.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's "Undying Beauty"
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"Talking Turkeys" consists of five stanzas. It is a cross between a rap song and a versanelle, with a reggae flavor. It scintillates with rime but does not display a consistent rime scheme. While the poem’s delivery appears to emphasize the fun in its subject, its deeper message is quite serious: Benjamin Zephaniah is an activist vegan-vegetarian.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Zephaniah's "Talking Turkeys"
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