Richard Garcia = Poet by Roy PAGANO https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs Hecho con un toque de buena suerte en-us 2017-05-12 11:36:04 UTC 2025-08-10 00:41:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Who is/was he/she?Richard Garcia Poet ropagano1_2 https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171457432 Born in San Francisco in 1941.
He began to write poems during his teens.]]> 2017-05-12 11:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171457432 Book Publishing ropagano1_2 https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171458202 After publishing his chap book, selected Poems in 1972, he stopped writing for a # of years until and encouraging letter from Octavio Paz.]]> 2017-05-12 11:48:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171458202 What calls your attention? ropagano1_2 https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171459351 #1) lines and stanzas, #2) some stanzas have more lines than other ones.]]> 2017-05-12 11:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171459351 Poem: "The City is So Big" ropagano1_2 https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171459591 The city is so big
Its bridges quake with fear
I know, I have seen at night
The lights sliding from house to house
And trains pass with windows shining
Like a smile full of teeth
 
I have seen machines eating houses
And stairways walk all by themselves
And elevator doors opening and closing
And people disappear
]]> 2017-05-12 11:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171459591 What is the poem about? ropagano1_2 https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171459901 This poem is about the city where he is at, and shows the comparisons around him with other objects.]]> 2017-05-12 11:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171459901 one word you do not know ropagano1_2 https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171460209 Quake
Verb/Noun
Shake or tremble on the earth’s surface.
Quiver =Synonym ]]> 2017-05-12 12:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171460209 Figures of speech: ropagano1_2 https://padlet.com/ropagano1_2/napikygwrffs/wish/171460529 Figure of speech: Simile

Example: “trains pass with windows shining, like a smile full of teeth.”

Analyse it: It compares the brightness of the train's window with the brightness of someone's teeth with the smile(color: white).
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