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Use Of Structure In The Yellow Birds By Amy Lowell

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Poets and authors use structure to protest against war. Structure is used to complete a piece of writing. In the novel The Yellow Birds, Powers uses just one long, run on sentence “What are you gonna do? But really it doesn’t matter… .” Powers used this structure to describe what it was like for authors who are confused with thoughts. In the poem “Patterns” by Amy Lowell, Lowell has a recurring rhyme scheme at the end of each line but also breaks from a pattern. “Make plain to them excellence of killing And a field where a thousand corpses lie. Mother whose heart hung humble as a button On the bright splendid shroud of your son…” (Crane 21-24), Crane shows structure by indenting his stanzas in his poems. Poets and Authors use imagery,

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