Maxine Kumin Poetry Analysis

Maxine Kumin definitely has a genuinely shocking way of portraying her poetry. It can easily be seen that she has a deep love for nature and animals. However, it goes to a much further outer space than your average person. In the numbers Morning swimming and To Swim, to Believe she describes swimming, as obviously menti onenessd in the title. In Morning Swim she describes becoming one with the body of water as she travels through it. In To Swim, to Believe she describes deli rattling boy walking on the water, as described in the Bible. She states about how turncock had doubt about what Jesus told him to do, and thus as a exit fell into the water.This poem demonstrates the importance of believing. enlightenment as Anus is a very strong poem. It describes the multiple horrors and atrocities that animals face while they ar facing interrogatory and experiments. The poem really stabs at you and expresses its opinion with feeling. For example, The whitewall labs fill up with the commode of fear. (Kumin) Requiem on I-89 describes the carcasses of animals being devoured on the road. She shirks in no expand at all. The putrid, split carcasses strewn across the road are explained in vivid detail. For example, lies on its side, bust open. (Kumin) Kumin uses very interesting rhyme schemes.In Morning Swim it is pretty straightforward. Every draw and quarter rhymes with the one following it. In Heaven as Anus I can really only see the prototypal and third lines rhyming, as well as the last two lines rhyming. In Requiem on I-89 I can see that no straightforward lines rhyme with each other. Donald Justice does a very good ponder of using imagery to portray events in his poems. In First decease he describes the death and wake of his grandmother. One quote that really bear on me was Powder mixed with a drying paste as I recollect the makeup that my late not bad(p)-grandmother wore. In Absences he describes the emptiness of a snow-stricken day.This poem is ra ther gloomy in tone, as it describes his memories of playing a childishness piano. I really found that Men at Forty was a rather interesting, if somewhat humorous, poem. In it, he is describes how middle-aged men remember about certain things. For example, remembering teaching their sons how to tie their shoes. The face of the boy as he practices tying. He says There are more fathers than sons themselves now, alluding to the detail that at this point in the mens lives (at least in this time period) their children are growing old enough to the point where they are beginning to move out.Donald Justice rhymes his poem First Death in a very simple matter. Every line rhymes with the subsequent line following it. This goes on for all of the forty-eight lines that it contains. I could honestly consider no evidence of rhyme in his poem Children Walking star sign From School Through Good Neighborhood. The same is the case of Absences. This reinforces the concept, that comes from prev ious readings as well, that rhyme is not needed at all to create great works of poetry.