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. please help

Of all the forms professional writers can take, it is the professional poet who most often finds themself struggling to make ends meet financially. Poetry can be difficult to understand and require a lot of effort on the part of the reader. Students can be forgiven for wondering what exactly is the point of this difficult to write and difficult to read genre that is apparently used to torture the less literary minded during their school years.

It may be a hard sell to some of our more reluctant students, but there is a point behind all this word-smithery.

Poetry’s purpose is essentially to help us understand the world around us. It endeavors to show us things anew that we may have previously taken for granted. It offers us new perspectives on the familiar.  

Poetry’s purpose is to enable us to see the world with fresh eyes again, like those of a child. In doing this, it helps us understand our world in a deeper way.

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the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

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