When I read the poem to myself, I tried to understand the meaning of the poem. I discovered that the speaker is addressing his brain as something separate. He is asking his brain to teach him the art of remaining idle. I think this idea is funny and interesting.
When I read the poem aloud, I paused because of the punctuation. My voice changed when I asked the question in the poem. After reading the poem aloud multiple times, I discovered that punctuation in a poem helps convey meaning. Also, I found that the poem doesn’t rhyme. It reads like prose. I preferred reading the poem aloud because I gained more insight into its meaning.
When I read the poem to myself, I tried to understand the meaning of the poem. I discovered that the speaker is addressing his brain as something separate. He is asking his brain to teach him the art of remaining idle. I think this idea is funny and interesting.
When I read the poem aloud, I paused because of the punctuation. My voice changed when I asked the question in the poem. After reading the poem aloud multiple times, I discovered that punctuation in a poem helps convey meaning. Also, I found that the poem doesn’t rhyme. It reads like prose. I preferred reading the poem aloud because I gained more insight into its meaning.
The term ramshackle seems to infer that the houses in the neighborhood are not in tip top shape , so the neighborhood consists of people who are not financially elevated. But Miss Lottie's home is the worst of them all. It's old and unkept. Which could suggest that Miss Lottie herself is old.
