'Mediation' By Kim Stafford

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How Words Can Create Chaos and Stability by Sami How do poets make their stories come to life with a deeper meaning than what is just on your page? Kim Stafford, the phenomenal poet, can do all these amazing things. Born on October 15, 1949, Kim was raised by his mother and father Dorothy and William Stafford. Dorothy Stafford was a teacher and later became a widow. William was a poet just like Kim. Kim Stafford was not only a poet, but also a songwriter. Kim Stafford received a B.A. in 1971, an M.A. in English in 1973 and a Ph.D. in medieval literature in 1979 from the University of Oregon.

Kim Stafford writes many poems. One of the poems that he wrote that was called “Mediation”. In this poem there are parents who are fighting at the dinner table. Their child tries to help them resolve the conflict by giving them rules that the teachers used to help resolve conflicts at school. Altho the child tries to make things better, it only gets worse, and results in a plate being thrown. …show more content…

One example of analyzing the poem is how the lines stop in random places. This can also be called, enjambment. The poem is describing a fight. When fights happen, they are fast and quick and intense, the author tries to recreate the chaos and speed of the fight by using enjambment. The second example of analyzing the poem is that the stanzas are broken up into four lines. The only lines that are not broken up into four lines are the last ones, which are broken up into couplets. The third example of analyzing this poem, is that there are a lot of metaphors that bring out the intense and vehement emotion, such as, “A wall of fire sethes…”. This brings out all the emotions in the air, and what the angry parents feel like, even though the author doesn’t say that they were mad, you can guess how much anger and tension is in the

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