Question

What do you understand by „casual, conversational opening‟ of a poem? Write two different verses with conversational openings.

06 Feb 2018
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The conversation poem is a genre of poetry most commonly associated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. These poems are personal and emotional in nature, often drawing on real events from the poet's life. While these poems don't have to follow a highly formulaic structure, they do share several similarities.

Subject Matter

Like most conversation poems, Coleridge's poems each share a meaningful memory

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GLOSSARY:

Blows : boasts (Slang)

Hide : skin (usually of animals)

Girth : Band around a horse that keeps the saddle in place

Wallaroo : Animal of the kangaroo family

Wombat : Australian animal

Narrer Narrow (Slang)

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