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Hi students, happy new week to all of you. I hope you're all doing really well.

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So for this week, I decided to read poetry again. I found poetry to be really healing

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personally for me during this time just because I love how specific detail can really capture

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one moment in time. So from you, I'd love to know if you've written any poems or what your

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favorite poems are. These poems both had the title morning in it and described sort of the

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feeling of morning. So I'm also curious, what is your favorite time of day? Maybe it's different

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during quarantine than it usually is, but what's your favorite time of day and why? I really like

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the morning because I always feel most productive in the morning and I guess I like the stillness

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of the day before it gets really busy. So both of these poems utilize literary devices. The first

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poem by Billy Collins uses onomatopoeia, which you might know what that means, but in case you

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don't, it's a word that sounds like what it means. The second poem by Charles Simic utilizes

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alliteration, which means it's occurrence of the same sound or letter in closely connected words.

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So my next question for you guys is, can you identify what the onomatopoeia is in the first poem and what the alliteration is in the second poem?

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And then last but not least, this poem uses specific images to talk about the morning.

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And in fact, there's one animal which both poems mention.

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and I'm curious if you picked up on what that animal is that's mentioned in both poems.

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I look forward to hearing your responses and emails

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and I can't wait to get back to you guys and talk.

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Bye!