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by BMolinaro - (2011-10-04)
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Poetry-> Lyrical poetry-> poetry that speaks about intimat, private personal problems, emotion, something very peculiar to the autor.
Reflecting poetry-> makes the reader reflect,think.
Narrative poetry-> a poetry which narrates a story.
Argumentative poetry-> a poetry which discussed a problem and provides argumentations.
There exist different form of poetry:
Poem in free verse
The sonet
The Ode

The language of poetry is complex because it requires serious analysis of words, sounds, word order and much more.

To reflect on: riflettere su


Vagabonds

Titles open an expectation in the reader.
The poet focuses his attention on a specific groups of people not singol person.
Using the word ''nowhere'' the poet hints at they are probably homeless.
Using this choice the poet makes it so that the reader has the idea of privation stick in his mind.
He uses therefor anaphonic construction ''nowhere'', ''noplace'' reinforced by alliterarure sound ''no''.
The idea of privation, of the lack of a home is given not only by words but also with sintax and the sound. Also there are two infinities in the poem ( to eat and to sleep) , this infinities create an idea of distance of a remote dimension from their everyday reality, reinforced by the assonance of the sound ''ee''. The poems ends with the reiteration of an abstract adjecture where the suffix ''less'' highlights a sense of lack again. The use of the modal ''cannot'' underlines the impossibility of vagabonds to have what is the minimal for survive: human survival.

To go: has a definite destination
To vagabond: you move around but you don't have a destination
To care about something: preoccuparsi di qualcosa
To take care of somebody: prendersi cura di qualcuno
Run on line( enjambment) : compels the reader to read on to the next line in order to better understand the meaning.
To compel: costringere
In order : al fine di
To hint at: alludere
To reinforce: rinforzare
Tearless: senza lacrime
Lack: mancanza

Vagabonds by Langston Hughes

The text is a short poem organized into three short group of lines that convey the idea of vagabonds' privation and difficult life. Their daily existance is marked by the lack of the human survival.
They are deprived even of their identity: you cannot see any specific face, you can name no one, because they haven't got a name: they are ''the desperate'', ''the hungry'' and ''the tearless''.
The reader is free to imagine their faces but not to think of their homes. The poem proceeds with anaphoric structure ( who do not, who cannot). Repetition, the use of the assonance ( to eat and to sleep) and alliteration (nowhere, notcare,noplace) creates a memorably effect in the reader's mind.