Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Great Regulars: One of the most effective means for conveying

strong emotion is to invest some real object with one's feelings, and then to let the object carry those feelings to the reader. Notice how the gloves in this short poem by José Angel Araguz of Oregon carry the heavy weight of the speaker's loss.

Gloves

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 196

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