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I Love the Hour Just Before My initial reaction to this poem was that I share the same emotions the author expresses throughout the poem. I’ve been in a situation where you’re getting ready for an event or something similar to that and you become anxious for the event to start. That’s how I felt while reading this poem. His last lines were, â€Å"Everything waiting. Even the wine barely breathing.† The anxiety of the event to start is causing everyone to be nervous. The most interesting line in the poem that I liked was the third line, â€Å"Pulling on boots, fixing their hair, planning what to say if she’s there, picking a pluckier lipstick, rehearsing a joke with a stickpin in it, doing the last minute fumbling one does before leaving†¦show more content†¦For me reading this poem, it was a twist in the story for me when the author said that he was 8-years-old because I couldn’t believe that an 8-year-old was having these emotions, or even watching this on T V in the first place. I think the most provocative word used throughout the poem is the word â€Å"touch.† Everyone knows what the generic definition of â€Å"touch† is, but the author describes it as something completely different, and it gives the word such a different meaning throughout the rest of the poem for the reader to relate too and truly understand where the author is coming from. Evangelize Your Love My initial reaction to the poem was confused. I had to re-read this poem a few times, and I still don’t think I fully grasped the concept. I think it is about a women and a man who got into something before they could handle it resulting in having a kid, but I’m not positive. Overall, I don’t really like this poem. The most interesting line in this poem to me was the last line, â€Å"’How can I live like this?’ the three of them in unison.† This threw a curve ball at me the first time I was reading the poem because it brought to my attention that theShow MoreRelatedThe Day Is Done Poem Analysis941 Words   |  4 PagesHenry Wadsworth Longfellow’s short poem, â€Å"The Day is Done,† the reader is given a glimpse of the Romantic era of American poetry. Structurally, it does contain many elements of this era, namely the playful usage of verse or rhyme schemes. However, this is where Longfellow’s work seems to end in relati on to typical Romantic poetry. Upon further examination of this poem, the execution of subject matter does not seem to fit a typical Romantic era poems. 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