I think their was a major difference between viewing the video of Taylor Mali speak, and reading what he was saying on the screen. When you visualize what he is saying, you can see the sarcasm and the wittiness of his sentences. When you read the words it is much more powerful. Some were capitalized, some words were bigger than others, it gave a different feel.
I think what "flash" even means is the power and knowledge your words contain when you speak. How you cant be afraid to speak with authority and intelligence. In the end, those words will always teach you who you are and you cant question who you present yourself to be.
I think Dickinson's poem is "fresh" because it made the poem sound in a sense, creepy. How the words slant, lies, and man be blind make the pitch of your voice different, it really gets into your head.
In "Litany" Billy Collins impacted me because he makes something about love and beautiful imagery into a comical reign of uncertainty. By uncertainty I mean that he turned a beautiful poem into anything he wanted just by the choice of words.
Billy Collins's poem and Shakespears "My misstress eyes" both show sarcasm, but they speak beautifully of their love in a round about way. They did not speak in an appealing fashion towards the women, and no woman wished to be talked about in that way either, but in the end they still talked about their love and that is the soul of both poems.
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