Example: "In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie" (Piercy 19-22).

Example: "these hips are free hips" (Clifton 5). In "homage to my hips" Lucille Clifton uses hips as a symbol for womanhood.

Example: "This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful" (Smith 16).

Example: Bathing the New Born - "the chest, the hands, the clavicles, the throat, the gummy furze of the scalp" (Olds 13-15).

Example - " Now I am a lake," (Plath 10).

In the poem "Good Bones" the speaker is the mother, who tells the reader how she hopes for a better future for her children.

Example > "Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every stranger, there is one who would break you" (Smith 10-12).

example: In the poem "Crash" assonance is used when repeating the vowel sound of the long a when stated, "O gender, O race, O yea of little faith" (Alexander 11, 12).