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Assignment:
Read the poem and answers the following questions:
Eating Poetry By Mark Strand
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine
I have been eating poetry
The librarian does not believe what she sees
Her eyes are sad
And she walks with her hands in her dress
The poems are gone
The light is dim
The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up
Their eyeballs roll their blond legs burn like brush
The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep
She does not understand
When I get on my knees and lick her hand,
she screams
I am a new man
I snarl at her and bark
I romp with joy in the bookish dark.
- What is the rhyme scheme of Eating Poetry?
- Explain the metaphor in the title.
- What is the style used in 'Eating poem' by Mark Strand?
- In terms of the extended metaphor, what happened to the poems that they 'are gone' in line 7?
- The first and last stanzas support the same idea. Explain fully.
- Identify the tone of the poem.