George herbert’s poems, “the alter” and “easter wings” are examples of what kind of formal poem

The poem is a sample; of a genre poem, it can also be called a concrete or shape poem. This is because the poem has varied lines in each sentence that creates a visual shape and patterns of the poem. The essence of the poem becomes a representation of the poem on each page.

As the wings narrow and grow full, they reinforce the meaning of the poem through communication. For instance, every stanza narrows down, and the center of each verse defines the purpose of the poem.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

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