Poem Analysis: Clover

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In the passage Clover, Graham, a teacher, seems to have playful interactions with his students. This is explained throughout the passage and is expressed the dialogue of the characters. The author creates Graham to be a quirky, yet hard working character. This was shown when Graham did not have a mirror to do his hair and came to school with it looking not up to standard, yet only because he was doing renovations to his home and forgot to get a new mirror when he was to replaced his other one. In the excerpt from Clover, Grahams relations with his students is not strict or stern, however more jokingly and lighthearted. The author states after Graham explains that he did not have a mirror to do his hair one of his students teasingly says “Don’t you have another mirror, Mr. Koglin?” This displays their correlation is fun, and care free. The students also react to him in an enjoyable way. He and his students have a mutual respect for each other and no one is higher than the other. This was displayed in paragraph 4 when the author states “There were smiles, there was the folding of arms across chests, the lovely and generous gestures of smart and confident young women who appreciated the perquisites that sometimes came with being smart and …show more content…

Through the excerpt from Clover, in paragraphs 7 and 8 it explains that Graham puts much work into his home and is stringent about the methods the former owner had to doing the walls. “You remember the previous owner,’ he said… He was a secondary character, a clown who had a habit of taking the easy way out… Graham reminded them of the time the previous owner had painted over wallpaper and then wallpapered over that. Graham reminded them of the layers of linoleum and tile built upon each other like kitchen strata. ‘Well,’ Graham continued, ‘One of the last remnants of the previous Owner’s terrible

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