Explicating a poem?

Can someone please help me explicate a poem called'Thinking About Pound on Shattuck Avenue' by Tom Clark? Thank you!!

Update:

pitched much too low for dogs to hear, the melody of the death of culture. Th epoets are dead. Ezra floated home on a boat of flowers just in time.

Comments

  • We had an acronym "MiSSLe"

    M - musical device (rhyme scheme/meter)

    S - structure (form/movement, pauses)

    S - situation (tone/emotion, voice)

    L - language (word use, simile/metaphor use, etc).

    now look at the poem again, try to find similarities using the above groupings!

  • I can't help without reading the text, but if its the word 'explicate' you're confused by - they just want you to explain it. Think about the tone of the poem...imagery...characters...the conflict or problem....what's going on? What's your interpretation?

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