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In Trying Times Poetry

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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"IN TRYING TIMES"

BY HERBERTO PADILLA
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STRUCTURE

  • Length: 34 lines of varying length
  • Verse: free
  • Stanzas: 2 long stanzas
  • Rhyme: no rhyme
  • Meter: moderate cadence, no specific feet or meter
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REPETITION

  • "They asked him..."
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IMAGERY

  • “they asked him for his legs / hard and knotted,"
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SYMBOL

  • “unless he turned his TONGUE over to them,”
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SUMMARY

  • This poem expresses the many sacrifices soldiers selflessly make for thei country
  • This poem also goes over the how soldiers are betrayed by their country to whom they gave everything too.
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GRENADE

BY BRUNO MARS
Photo by CarolMunro
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WORKS CITED

  • Padilla, Herberto. "In Trying Times".Reading the World. Ed. Rebecca Burke. Iowa: Logan, 2013. iBook
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