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“Metaphor”. In “Metaphor” Sylvia Plath utilizes symbolic poetic structure combined with an enigmatic series of metaphors to capture the.

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Definition: 1) A concise summary of essential points,
statements,or facts 2) a summary.
Singular: précis = pray-SEE or PRAY-see
Plural: précis = pray-SEEZ
Key components for a poem précis:
1) author
2) Title (in quotation marks unless epic)
3) theme
4) key defining element(s) of poem
(possibly including specific poetic devices, tone, detail,
imagery, diction, structure, allusion, figurative
language)
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Definition: 1) A concise summary of essential points,

statements,or facts 2) a summary.

Singular: précis = pray-SEE or PRAY-see Plural: précis = pray-SEEZ Key components for a poem précis:

  1. author
  2. Title (in quotation marks unless epic)
  3. theme
  4. key defining element(s) of poem (possibly including specific poetic devices, tone, detail, imagery, diction, structure, allusion, figurative language)

Poetry Précis

“Metaphor” In “Metaphor” Sylvia Plath utilizes symbolic poetic structure combined with an enigmatic series of metaphors to capture the emotional struggles with uncertainty and change that may accompany the state of pregnancy. “In Plaster” Sylvia Plath’s “In Plaster” invites the intermingling of the literal and figurative—the literal description of being in a plaster cast versus the figurative levels ranging from self-doubt to psychological duality—to reveal the survivor’s message of enduring and ultimately overcoming conflict through self-transformation.

In “My Papa’s Waltz” Theodore Roethke displays the view of a young boy who is roughed up by his father through drum-like syllabic emphasis and negative diction. In “My Papa’s Waltz,” poet Theodore Roethke expresses a small child’s endurance with his drunken father through rhyming couplets and contrasting diction, recounting the pain and anguish in a broken home where daily life is defined by surviving an overworked father’s “rough” play. or