The Doggy Ate My Poem By Darren Sardelli

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The two poems use a lot of imagery language. In the poem The Doggy ate my Essay the writer incorporates irony as the main theme of the poem. The common excuse “my dog ate my homework”. The dog cleans up his whole room and in the end eats his essay about “how to clean my room”. Eating poetry uses a lot of imagery language in sort of a surreal way. The poem starts of with a man eating poetry then dogs running up stairs and the man turning into a dog. I chose this poem because of the many language features it uses and the different perspectives the reader can view it in.. The message of the first poem is quite straightforward but in eating poetry there is a wider range of meanings. I think these poems are quite modern in they way they are written.

The poem My Doggy Ate My Essay by Darren Sardelli let me know that irony in the poem …show more content…

This phrase might already hint on that the man was actually eating poetry. Each tercet takes us deeper into the mind of the speaker and the bizarre consequences after eating poetry. The poem wrote the poem in a way that allows us to think of it in our own way because there is no right way of understanding it. The authors poem includes a lot of bizarre imagery language which hints it might be a dream. Linking back to the different ways we can understand the poem. This poem also reminds me of the saying “You are what you eat”. This can explain what the poem was written which is most likely dogs. All the things that happen in the poem are written in the poem that the man ate. Alliteration really gave the poem the descriptiveness and imagery language, example “their blond legs burn like brush” and “she walks with her hands in her dress”. I start to understand the the metaphor at the start was actually a literal phrase.. This unreal scene made me think of the reasons the poet wrote it. All the dreamlike scenes link to eating of poetry as poetry can sometimes

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