Week 4, Sign Inventory

Sign inventory for Poems by Gary Gildner in our class text:

• the work uses a free-verse style
• the work includes four lines within every stanza, and only includes two sentences within the whole piece
• interestingly, the narrator incorporates a poem within a poem
• the work itself sets out to delineate the narrators story of sending his mother poems he had written, and surprisingly receiving a poem back as her response
• the other poem is, of course, that of his mother- telling her son about the world around her 
• a phenomena within the discourse of the piece is the fact that the author is using displacement. He is setting himself aside, taking on different identities: the narrator and the narrators mother. 
• the narrator himself know how to write poetry, however, the mother is unfamiliar with the guidelines of writing poetry but although ignorant her poetic voice sings throughout her letter- the author does a nice job with being able to show both 
• the writer also does a nice job of staying grounded, minding P's and Q's