St. Lucy Home For Women Analysis

Poetry & Prose: Best of Both Worlds According to Michelle Plott and Lauri Umanski poetry is “where we give name to the nameless so it can be thought”(Umanski,Plott). Some will say that poetry and prose is the same but that is not the case. There are so many differences on the way that language is used in poetry and prose. According to Oxford English Dictionary prose is a written form of language that is not metrically structured (Oxford English Dictionary). The language in prose is mostly straight to the point of the story. As for poetry, writers usually base their poems of emotions. Which gives them the opportunity to let the reader wander off into their poem and come up with their own deduction about the poem. As in a prose you can clearly

In “St. Lucy Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” the climax of the story takes place when Claudette, which happened to be one of the most fortunate girl’s starts to realize that she changes had taken place within her. Her old ways were now starting to become a part of the old her. She was beginning to get used to the new and improved Claudette. At the same time she realized that Mirabella was not as fortunate as her and was basically a lost cause. Mirabella was refusing to adapt to the new ways of learning to become civilized.

Step number four of the elements of plot is falling action. In this story by Russell the moment of the falling action is, when Claudette realizes and feels that everything is starting to feel at home for her in the new environment. In this instance the author lets the reader know by an excerpt in the story that reads “Your students feel more at home, and their self-confidence grows.” (Russell 237) The author writes this in her story to give the readers some direction throughout the

This is where the poet gets a bit more descriptive and mentions something along the lines to “Take nothing of one another and leave behind your license number only which they won’t care to trace” (Snodgrass 766). These lines of the stanza brings out the climax of the poem. We then have the falling action of the poem which is found in stanza six. Which by the words the poet uses it is considered to be the falling action. On line 23 of the stanza the poet wrote “We’ve gathered and must leave to serve” (Snodgrass 766). This puts an end to the checklist that they had going on and lets us know that they have finalized everything they were previously doing and are ready to get going.

At last comes the conclusion of the poem which is located in stanza seven. Where the characters come to an understanding that it is time to leave the motel. They have an uncertainty of not knowing when they will be back but they mention that when they do. They will do it all over again with different names and rooms. The poet throughout this poem is very descriptive but leaves the interpretation of the theme of the poem to readers. After knowing the plot of the poem as a reader we also have to figure out the setting of the poem or