Saturday, November 14, 2009

What point of view is the poem "Where I'm From" written in???

Where I'm From


I am from clothespins,


from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride.


I am from the dirt under the back porch.


(Black, glistening,


it tasted like beets.)


I am from the forsythia bush


the Dutch elm


whose long-gone limbs I remember


as if they were my own.





I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,


from Imogene and Alafair.


I'm from the know-it-alls


and the pass-it-ons,


from Perk up! and Pipe down!


I'm from He restoreth my soul


with a cottonball lamb


and ten verses I can say myself.





I'm from Artemus and Billie's Branch,


fried corn and strong coffee.


From the finger my grandfather lost


to the auger,


the eye my father shut to keep his sight.





Under my bed was a dress box


spilling old pictures,


a sift of lost faces


to drift beneath my dreams.


I am from those moments--


snapped before I budded --


leaf-fall from the family tree.

What point of view is the poem "Where I'm From" written in???
First Person, because of the use of "I," and not he, she , it (3rd) or you (2nd).
Reply:i am is from everywhere.
Reply:well, its about, um well i cant really explain it but its my friend's poem and it was a school project! But i think it to show other people the real you.
Reply:Uthours Point, firstperson, point of the object that the poem is about


Just to lett you know,, all of those phrases mean the same thing.


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