Miss Adair's Poetry Special

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Here's my analogy...

Writing is an art.

Poetry is like painting- a specific medium for expression.

Poetry uses different tools to express meaning. These are like the different paint brushes that artists use to paint with.

Just as a painter chooses his colors with great care, the speaker also choses her words

paintbrush