“my love reveals objects”
by isabel fraire

my love reveals objects
silken butterflies
concealed in his fingers

his words
splash me with stars

night shines like lightning
under the fingers of my love

my love invents worlds where
jeweled glittering serpents live

worlds where music is the world
worlds where houses with open eyes
contemplate the dawn

my love is a mad sunflower that forget
fragments of sun in the silence

source: fraire, isabel. “my love reveals objects.” casa poema. casa poema, 30 sept. 2010. web. 18 may 2011.

what is the effect of the imagery in this poem?

it emphasizes how much the speaker admires and loves this man.
it distracts the reader from how immature the love must be.
it reveals her sadness at his madness and eventual suicide.
it obscures the fact that he doesn’t really love her at all.

A

Explanation:

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"but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. "