Devon is frustrated about the Crumbling and broken sidewalks in her neighborhood when she walks to school every day she thinks about the challenge that the uneven concrete must present to other people people in wheelchairs and people with strollers in shopping basket she has written an opinion piece about the topic in it she describes the condition of the sidewalks on her street and explains why she thinks repairing them is so important she wants to share what she wrote in hopes that her neighbors will read it pressure The alderman to take action what is the best approach for

Devon to take to publish the text and meet her goal

1. Sending the piece as a letter to our local aldermans office.

2. Sending the piece of letter to the editor of a local newspaper.

3. Submitting the piece for publication in a national magazine.

4. Submitting the piece to publication in in Academic journal

“tell me o swan, your ancient tale” by kabir “the swan” by rilke “spanish dancer” by rilke “your laughter” by pablo neruda “birthplace” by shaffarzadeh “it’s this way” by nazim hikmet “counting small-boned bodies” by robert bly choose two poems that you would like to write about. analyze each poem. study the perspective, or point of view, of the speaker in each of the two poems that you select for this assignment. consider these questions: who is the speaker in each of these poems? what is the speaker’s tone? is there a conflict? is there a message? what does each of the poems have in common? what is different about each of the poems? which literary devices are used in the poems? are these literary devices found in both of the poems? what does the speaker hope to achieve in each of the poems? how are these achievements/goals been met? directions: using the two poems of your choosing, write a clear, concise, two hundred and fifty word essay that compares and contrasts the two poems. make sure you include at least two of the following to support your thesis: tone, point of view, literary devices, and meter.