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what does intent mean for a poem?
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Starry
Also what does this question mean? What deeper meaning might there be?
Ms. Sue
Intent is what the poet wanted his readers to see, feel, believe, understand about the poem.
A deeper meaning is understanding what lies beneath the actual words used.
Reread Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain." It's a metaphor for the recently deceased Abraham Lincoln. The ship is the nation and the storm is the Civil War.
A deeper meaning is understanding what lies beneath the actual words used.
Reread Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain." It's a metaphor for the recently deceased Abraham Lincoln. The ship is the nation and the storm is the Civil War.