The Poems of Ezra Tompkins & Matthew Acahti

Perhaps the biggest similarity in the works of Tompkins and Acahti are the way that each poet uses vague imagery to help define mental process of existence. We can see that this is particularly true in the stylized nature of AcahtiÆs ôSuggestions for Stabilizingö with TompkinsÆ ôStory of My Life.ö In each of these works the authors produces images of nature to recreate the mental processes of human thought. In both poems the poets use nature to help create the mental processes or thoughts of the speakers. In ôSuggestions for Stabilizing,ö Acahti uses natural images to help convey the internal thought processes of his speakerÆs mind. The speaker uses images associated with weather (ôspaces,ö ôbreath,ö ôdensity,ö and ôdriftö) to mirror the internal processes of his thoughts (Acahti, p. 27). The speaker maintains that ôtimeö often ôcollapse[s] into memoriesö and begs for ôans

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