Tread

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  annetteberberena

  I can relate

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  Vixility

  The lovely thing about this poem is how the universal theme of endurance (spiritual or otherwise) is expressed through classical vernacular and deliberate poetic meter. The poetic diction and devices used to covey the poem’s message are several and seldom used. For example, the poet uses an elision in line 7 in order to preserve the iambic tetrameter on which the poem’s structure is based. Lines 5 and 9 employ hyperbatons (e.g. ‘press I on’ rather than ‘I press on’). The end rhymes of lines 5 and 6 is a clever oblique rhyme that manipulates the long ‘o’ in order to achieve its end (via assonance). And of course, there is the triple alliterative ‘s’ processions of lines 7and 10, to name a few. But most importantly, the universal condition of struggle and temptation and endurance is a topic familiar to every last one of us—it is truly a broad-spectrum theme. Yes, I very much appreciate this poet’s style and choice of topic. more »

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  Palomamckee

  There were a lot of good poems and I had a tough time narrowing it down, but this one just kept popping up to mind. It reminds me of a Robbert Frost poem but more than that I like the message to keep walking through the darkness because the light will come and it will get better. more »

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