<span>"Counting Small-Boned Bodies" is a short poem of ten lines and, as its title suggests, plays upon official body counts of dead Vietnamese soldiers. The poem's first line, "Let's count the bodies over again," is followed by three tercets, each of which begins with the same line: "If we could only make the bodies smaller." That condition granted, Bly postulates three successive images: a plain of skulls in the moonlight, the bodies "in front of us on a desk," and a body fit into a finger ring which would be, in the poem's last words, "a keepsake forever." One notes in this that Bly uses imagery not unlike that of the pre-Vietnam poems, especially in the image of the moonlit plain.</span>
Poetry is literature written in stanzas and lines that use rhythm to express feelings and ideas. Poets will pay particular attention to the length, placement, and grouping of lines and stanzas. This is called form. Lines or whole stanzas can be rearranged in order to create a specific effect on the reader.
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Work as a countable noun
She bought me the complete works of Shakespeare for my birthday. Several works of art were stolen from the town museum yesterday. The statue is a beautiful new work by the Swedish sculptor Lars Ahlander.
To analyze why the poem corresponds to the genre of medieval romance we must go back to the time of the creation of the romanecero. The Romancero suggested, as it had done in the Golden Age, the imagination of the medievalizing poets of European and Hispanic Romanticism. During the 19th century the translations of these Spanish ballads to English, French and German were frequent. The romancero influenced some poems by Victor Hugo. In Austria Barbara Elisabeth Glück wrote a Romancero (1845) and in Germany Heinrich Heine imitated it with another Romanzero (1851).
The romance is a short epic-lyric poem intended for singing. It is Epic, because in romance it is narrated, something is told; Lyrical, because at the same time that story is impregnated with subjectivity (feelings, memories, dreams, etc.) of the poet and the story is then made singing.
But also in romances, as in the epic, often the Narration gives way to the word, to the discourse of the characters. The story is transformed into action, into drama. And so are these short poems integrated into Classical literary genres: the epic, the lyrical and the dramatic.
