Consider the children who have been introduced in Act I. Choose one of those characters and design a poem from that character’s point-of-view that illustrates how they are feeling thus far in the play.

You must use at least three of the figurative language techniques from this lesson, and your poem must be at least three stanzas with four lines per stanza (twelve lines total). Your poem can be free verse or have a rhyme scheme.

u had been swinging restlessly

between the appearance of spontaneity

and the appearance of serious thought.

You had been changing lanes

after a glance

in a mirror honest about

its tendency to distort.

What choice did you have?

It was soothing to watch

wisps of smoke

from a nearby chimney

disappearing

one...

Explanation:

the anecdote makes readers feel sorry for the man’s lack of heritage, then reminds readers that the man has an equally valuable heritage.