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Poetry Close Reading: Quarantine by Eavon Boland

See this writeboard for an up-to-the-minute updated version. Since there is no way to edit these posts without losing one’s sanity. In the worst hour of the worst seasonof the worst year of a whole peoplea man set out from the workhouse with his wife.He was walking—they were both walking—north. This powerful poem begins with [...]

Posted 22 May 2006 † Yuletide § Poetry ‡ Comments (0) °

Fiction Close Reading: The Communist by Richard Ford

< p> Fiction Close Reading: The Communist by Robert Ford Richard Ford demonstrates several useful techniques in his short story The Communist I have chosen to focus on the final two paragraphs (page 542). He creates vivid imagery that serves to stop time in the story, and take up space, filling out the scene. The [...]

Posted 26 April 2006 † Yuletide § Fiction § Writing ‡ Comments (0) °