ENG 102

Task: Poetry explication based on the poem and poet you selected and researched from Bettering American Poetry - Volume 3. You should read the two Word documents, "Poetry Explication" and "Poetry Explication - Guide to Getting Started - Part II. You will then write a poetry explication of the poem or poems you have selected, based on the two hand-outs, answering most of the questions within in an ordered fashion for your essay. Feel free to inclu

Task: It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound. I held my breath and it happened again, then again; it was footsteps on the stairs. I tried to whisper, There's someone coming up the stairs, but my breath was cowering, I couldn't shape it. I squeezed Kevin's wrist in pulsing units, three pulses, then two pulses, then three pulses. I was trying to invent a physical language that could enter his sleep. But after a while I r