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Poetry allows people to express their feelings in ways that regular texts cannot. By carefully choosing each word and arranging them on a page, like an artist blending together colors on his canvas, a poet can make readers see, and feel, things that a normal auth ....

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.... turtles," use alliteration to create a smooth flowing, connected sound. The mood is calm and peaceful, yet descriptive. The reader's can see the same things that the author sees in his own mind, and a calm feeling is felt throughout the opening lines. Rudman then throws in some quicker wording to describe the landscape, which is broken up into short, incomplete ideas with commas. He introduces a multitude of ideas when he describes, "Hills leeched of color,// the desert a kind of form,// with rimrock and succulents and gulches// providing borders- boundaries.// Dust and Desire" (651). The above lines are very interesting when you look at the ....