Essay About Momentary BY A. E. STALLINGS

Write an essay about Momentary BY A. E. STALLINGS

• Identify the speaker (who is the speaker)
• What is the structure of the poem? (Two of the most important features to note here are stanza and meter form
• Does the poem fall into an identifiable sub-genre’ for example--- Is it a sonnet, Ballad, Haiku, or dramatic monologue?
• What, primarily, is the poem about, and how do you know that?

About specific parts of the poem (stanzas, couples, lines or even individual words)

• Diction (word choice): Why has the poet chosen these particular words? What words might she/ he have used instead, and why were they rejected in favor of others?
• Imagery: What images does the poem evoke? How are they evoked? How has the poet placed them? How do different images connect or contrast with another? 
• Literary devices: What kind of figurative language is the poem using---for example, simile, metonymy, hyperbole, apostrophe, or conceit? What about symbolism or literary allusions?   
• Other aural and visual details: What about punctuation? When read aloud do the sounds of the words contribute to the poem’s meaning?