Part I:Pick one of the poems from this Module (5)(see the attachment) and do an explication. Talk...

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Part I:Pick one of the poems from this Module (5)(see the attachment) and do an explication. Talk about speaker and audience, the rhetorical situation, tone, andwhat devices are being used. This should be much more detailed than your earlier explication.Use some of the questions I posed to help you. Refrain from using outside sources for this assignment. It is meant to gauge what you have learned during this course. Anyuse of material other than your own thoughts will be dealt with harshly, and you may fail the course.

Part II(about XXXXXXXXXXwords is good enought):Of all the poems(the zip file)you have read for this course, which was your favorite. Talk about why.Example:One poem I absolutely love is "Starry Night" by Anne Sexton. I love Vincent Van Gogh's art to begin with! Anne Sexton used great descriptive language, creating vivid imagery for me! "The town is silent The night boils with eleven stars."I think that Anne Sexton is expressing her beliefs in the poem. She fills her poem with themesof life, death, color, etc.

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Travelling through the dark – William Stafford
In the poem ‘Travelling through the dark’ by William Stafford the poet states that he was once driving his car through the mountain road in the night. Near the side of the Wilson River he saw a dear counting its last breath. The poet came out of his car and touches the deer. He realised that the dear was pregnant. But, he suddenly became emotional and upset as he could not do anything to save the life inside the dead dear. The road though which he was driving his car was narrow and he had no option but to move the dead body of the dear in the Wilson River. While scrutiny of the dead dear he could contrast between two lives, one the life of the unborn inside the dead dear and the continuous low sound of his car and engine with parking lights on and exhausting fume which was red and warm seemed lifelike. 
If I was in such a situation, I would have done the same thing what William Stafford did. This was because the dear was already dead and the life inside it was unborn. Hence there was no other option but to offer the body of the dead dear in the hands of the nature. 
Yes, it is not a poem of just a man and a dead dear on a road but meaning bigger than that. This is because there it is the relationship between nature and the technology which is the car. The poet also personifies the car as lifelike. Thus,

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