Ada Limons Before and Prickly Pear & Fisticuffs

I want to hear your thoughts on and interpretations of the texts, not SparkNotes, not Shmoops. Therefore, if I find plagiarized, paraphrased or summarized material from a study aid site or another resource of that nature, I will write you up for academic dishonesty, EVEN IF YOU CITED THE MATERIAL. This course is not about your ability to copy and paste another persons interpretation of a text but your ability to interpret and analyze a text. Peer-reviewed secondary sources (articles in refereed journals, available through the library databases), ARE allowed in your papers, but they must be incorporated and cited properly, whether paraphrased, summarized, or directly quoted, both in-text and on a Works Cited page.

Prompt 2: Repetition:

Both poems used repetition in their constructionword or phrase repetition that helped develop an image, develop a setting, develop meaning. Look at what each poem repeated and discuss how that word/phrase repetition helped develop Limns theme and purpose in each poem.