ISHAMPOO Literary Devices

"divisions have divided into new nations with new name, but not this one impossibly interwoven"

"The names... are in the order of dying. An alphabet of somewhere screaming."

"Flowers are forced / Into the cracks / Between sections" - Rios, "The Vietnam Wall"

"The way like cutting onions / It brings water out of nowhere..." - Rios, "The Vietnam Wall"

"That's because it was built of bits and pieces that seem discordant, like the crazy quilts..."

Critics argue the president should be more decisive rather than sit on the fence of this issue

"Invisible from one side, a scar / Into the skin of the ground from the other... appendix line"

"In complement extern, 'tis not long after / but I will wear my heart on my sleeve" Shakespeare

“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free" - Coleridge

“Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O heavy lightness! O lead feather!" Romeo & Juliet

"Easy, a little black marble wall...a smoothness, a shine..."

"Nobody ever listens to me," said the Yellow Traffic Light. 

"that this nation, Under God, shall have a new birth of freedom..." Lincoln Gettysburg Address

"he heard the clack on stone and the leaping, dropping clicks of a small rock falling.”

"Where bashful flowers blow,And blushing birds go down to drink,And shadows tremble so?”

"I see it lap the miles, and lick the valleys up..." - Emily Dickinson, The Railway Train  

"The town does not exist..." - Anne Sexton, The Starry Night