Read this excerpt about the vietnam war from tim o'brien's "good form": i want you to feel what i felt. i want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. here is the happening-truth. i was once a soldier. there were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but i was young then and i was afraid to look. and now, twenty years later, i'm left with faceless responsibility and faceless grief. here is the story-truth. he was a slim, dead, almost dainty young man of about twenty. he lay in the center of a red clay trail near the village of my khe. . i killed him. what stories can do, i guess, is make things present. i can look at things i never looked at. i can attach faces to grief and love and pity and god. i can be brave. i can make myself feel again. "daddy, tell the truth," kathleen can say, "did you ever kill anybody? " and i can say, honestly, "of course not." or i can say, honestly, "yes." how does the author's specific word choice and stylistic devi

“tell me o swan, your ancient tale” by kabir “the swan” by rilke “spanish dancer” by rilke “your laughter” by pablo neruda “birthplace” by shaffarzadeh “it’s this way” by nazim hikmet “counting small-boned bodies” by robert bly choose two poems that you would like to write about. analyze each poem. study the perspective, or point of view, of the speaker in each of the two poems that you select for this assignment. consider these questions: who is the speaker in each of these poems? what is the speaker’s tone? is there a conflict? is there a message? what does each of the poems have in common? what is different about each of the poems? which literary devices are used in the poems? are these literary devices found in both of the poems? what does the speaker hope to achieve in each of the poems? how are these achievements/goals been met? directions: using the two poems of your choosing, write a clear, concise, two hundred and fifty word essay that compares and contrasts the two poems. make sure you include at least two of the following to support your thesis: tone, point of view, literary devices, and meter.