When each day you watch rivers of bright merchandise run past you

And you are floating in your pleasure boat upon this river

This stanza demonstrates this kind of figurative language to criticize excessive materialism:

"America," Tony Hoagland

the risk/to remain tight

in a bud/ was more painful

than the risk/it took

to Blossom.

Like a heart represents love, a $ represents money, this poem contains an example of this kind of figurative language:

"Risk," Anais Nin

Quarterly, is it, money reproaches me:

‘Why do you let me lie here wastefully?

I am all you never had of goods and sex.

You could get them still by writing a few cheques.’

The stanza from this poem speaks of this type of figurative language:

"Money," Phlip Larkin

I dreamt I was a really old Latin American

detective. I lived in New York and Mark Twain

was hiring me to save the life of someone without

a face. “It’s going to be a damn tough case, Mr.

Twain,” I told him.

The reference to the 19th century American writer Mark Twain is a/n:

Roberto Bolano

if the bottle breaks in the car,

the stench will haunt you long after the car is compacted.

This passage employs this kind of imagery:

"Thit Kho," Joshua Nguyen

One day, she’ll squeeze a paper cup

just enough to hold it.

This passage includes this type of imagery to tell the story of a woman with a bionic arm:

"Bionics," Michelle Oakes

One of us wheeled out a

cart and sold

corn on a stick.

Soft butter, sour cream, flecks of

pulverized peppers.

This passage contains imagery related to this sense:

"After the Hurricane," Gwendolyn Zepeda

peek inside his dressing room,

you see him disrobe,

towel off his face,

and see—

see another clown.

This passage about a clown employs this type of imagery:

"Cotton Candy," Billie Duncan

a white woman,

... spoke with all the deep antebellum south

& enough evangelical grit

to reach across isles

This stanza features this kind of imagery?

"Shopping While Black," Loyce Gayo

In poetry everything is permitted.

With only this condition of course,

You have to improve the blank page.

This stanza suggests a theme related to:

"Young Poets," by Nicanor Parra

the shelves are crowded with perfumes...

The distillation would intoxicate me also,

The atmosphere is not a perfume, it has no taste of the distillation, it is odorless... It is for my mouth forever, I am in love with it,

These verses use scent imagery to compare

"Song of Myself," Walt Whitman

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

The simile in this verse suggests the narrator:

"Still I Rise," Maya Angelou

How many books now have the word Last

In their title? Or worry, or some dangling variation

Of mistake? Or empire burning,

The rhyme scheme here gives this satire of pessimistic modern literature a modern touch:

All the American Poets Have Titled Their New Books “The End”, Cornelius Eady

40. I dreamt that a storm of phantom numbers was

the only thing left of human beings three billion

years after Earth ceased to exist.

The tone of this poem is:

Roberto Bolano

My hip hurts when I move my chin,

My belly button's caving in...

My tongue is filling up my mouth,

I think my hair is falling out.

My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,

My temperature is one-o-eight.

This complaint contains multiple examples of this kind of figurative language:

"Sick," Shel Silverstein

I love you as a

Kid searches for a goat; I am crazier than shirttails

In the wind, when you’re near

In these verses, the speaker is

"To You," Kenneth Koch

There will be time to murder and create,

And time for all the works and days of hands

That lift and drop a question on your plate;

And time yet for a hundred indecisions,

And for a hundred visions and revisions,

Before the taking of a toast and tea.

This poem uses repetition to

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," TS Eliot

El Salvador will be a beautiful

and without exception, a dignified country

when the working class and the people of the countryside

enrich it, bathe, powder and groom it,

This poet creates an extended metaphor that

"El Salvador Will Be," Roque Dalton

I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world

except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick/which thank heavens

you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together for the first time

The speaker makes an allusion to the painting Polish Rider in order to

"Having a Coke With You," Frank O'Hara