I Stand Here Poem Analysis

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her parents. After I read and re-read and re-read the article “I Stand Here Writing”, it is clearly to see the opinion that the author wants to show us, as a writer, it’s important and necessary to use a different way to think, it will help you to find new characteristics and traits so that we could obtain inspiration to write, and sometimes when we need to compare two things, it help to find new traits and discover the relationship between different experience, ideas that seems unrelated. Sommers also said that writing is a loss of certainty. If we are supposed to write about what we know, than we can only truly write about ourselves. Imagine there is a poet, the poet can only know her feelings and what possesses those feelings. However,

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