![]() ![]() So, imo, knowing the names of stylistic features like this is much less important than noticing the effect of these features itself and asking how they shape the experience of the poem. At first read I just found the circularity very satisfying. I have to admit that the first time I read this, I did not realize it was a pantoum as this was not a poem form I was very familiar with (I did remember there was a name for this kind of poem but could not remember what it was). The second line of each stanza becomes the first line of the next stanza while the last line becomes the second to last. The poem is actually a pantoum, which means that although it has 20 lines spread over 5 stanzas, only 10 of those are unique lines. It’s a very interesting and (in my opinion) successful effect. Coming to visit Utah, Stallings said she was inspired by the mountains. Stallings began her career as a poet by writing for Cat Fancy and Seventeen Magazine while still a teenager. Handley Annual Reading as part of the BYU English Reading Series. This allows for a reading of the poem in which “she” is alternatively, Sleep and the lover. Stallings shares her writings and ideas for the Ethel L. The first voice says the lines the first time and the second voice picks them up and repeats them like an echo. Through the very regular rhythm and the repeated lines, the poem gives you a sense of a kind of circular song out of which, as the poem goes on, two different voices seem to emerge. The feeling of flow of the poem, both on the page and out loud, is what attracted me to “Another Lullaby for Insomniacs” although the poem seems a bit overly simplistic at first and writer is not one I’m overly familiar with. I love this feeling of a poem as a singular, condense experience and it’s frankly one of the qualities I look for most in poems I read for fun although for research I will read all kinds of poems (even, sadly, quite objectively boring ones). This sense of a poem as a static image on the page also for me contributes to giving poems the sense of capturing a single, intense moment of life. I think these kinds of poems are more interesting to read than longer ones because their shortness on the page allows you to experience the poem as both a written and recited text and an image. ![]() There’s nothing wrong with long poems, of course (after all I did my dissertation on a 100 pages long poem), but I like the effect of poems that you can read in one sweep of your eyes down the page. ![]() The former are referred to as diurnal organisms and the latter as nocturnal ones. Specifically, in some animals activity is elevated during the day, while in others activity is highest during the night. “Another Lullaby for Insomniacs” (2004) is slightly longer than the poems I usually share. The most striking differences have to do with the coupling between the rhythms and the day-night cycle. ![]()
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