For this assessment you must select one poem from the Virtual Poetry Museum and provide an in-depth analysis of it. Follow these three steps to complete your assessment:

Select and read a poem from the Virtual Poetry Museum.
Fill out your Experiencing Poetry Organizer to provide your in-depth analysis.
Select one magazine from the options below that you believe would be a good place to publish the poem you selected. Write one paragraph of five to seven sentences explaining why you selected that magazine for the poem. Provide supporting evidence by using quotations from the poem to justify or support your opinion. Follow standard spelling, grammar, and punctuation rules.

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Read the excerpt from "home front diary." jimmy simmons stopped by today to tell me that he had enlisted in the army. he asked me if i would write to him, and i said i would. i told him that i've been writing to my uncle arthur and susan's cousin john for about a year, and as an experienced correspondent i had some advice about all the censorship. "don't write down any information about your location or the number of soldiers in your unit because the censors will cut all of that away," i said. "in my experience, loose lips not only sink ships, they make letters look like snowflake decorations! ” well, he belly laughed over that one. how is the author's perspective different from jimmy's? the author has been to war and she can give jimmy advice. jimmy has become a soldier and does not believe the author’s advice. the author has experience writing to soldiers but jimmy does not. jimmy has more experience at letter writing than the author.