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The Poems I Have Not Written
Visual analysis of "The Poems I Have Not Written" by John Brehm for a sophomore English class at the East Greenwich High School.
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- Slide 2: I am SO Wildly UnProlific,
- Slide 3: Would reach from here to the Californian Coast if you laid them .end to end.
- Slide 4: And if you stacked them up, the poems I have not written would sway like a silent Tower of Babel, saying nothing
- Slide 5: and everything in a thousand
- Slide 6: diffe re nt tongue s . So moving, So `
- Slide 7: Filled with and of suffering,
- Slide 8: so steeped in the music of a voice
- Slide 9: speechless before the truth, the poems I have not written would break the hearts of every woman who’s ever left me,
- Slide 10: MAKE them eye their husbands with a sharp contempt and hate themselves for turning their backs on the very source of beauty.
- Slide 11: The poems I have not written would compel all other poets to ask of God:
- Slide 12: ” I am worthless.
- Slide 14: Trees would bow their heads before the poems I have not written. \"Take me,\" they would say, \"and turn me into your pages so that I might live forever as the ground from which your words arise.\" The wind itself, about which I might have written so eloquently
- Slide 15: ` Praising and intersecting rivers of air, its stately calms and furious interrogations, its flutelike lingerings and Pas s io nate
- Slide 16: to sweep down and then pass over the poems I have not written,
- Slide 17: and the life I have not lived,
- Slide 18: the life `
