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All This and More by: Mary Karr

All This and More by: Mary Karr. Beth Watkins. About Mary Karr. Born: January 16, 1955~ Hometown: Groves, Texas Three major works of poetry: Abacus, The Devil’s Tour, and Viper Rum

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All This and More by: Mary Karr

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  1. All This and More by: Mary Karr Beth Watkins

  2. About Mary Karr • Born: January 16, 1955~ • Hometown: Groves, Texas • Three major works of poetry: Abacus, The Devil’s Tour, and Viper Rum • She has won awards such as: Guggenheim Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, PEN, Bunting Fellowship, The whiting Writer’s Award, and National Endowment for the Arts grant • She’s traveled to many different states such as California, Minnesota,etc.

  3. All This and More by: Mary Karr NO RHYME SCHEME The Devil’s tour of hell did not include a factory line where molten lead spilled into mouths held wide, No electric drill spiraling screws into hands and feet, nor giant pliers to lower you into simmering vats. Instead, a circle of light opened on you stuffed armchair, whose chintz orchids did not boil and change, And the devil adjusted your new spiked antennae almost delicately, with claws curled And lacquered black, before he spread his leather wings to leap into the acid-green sky. So your head became a TV hull, a gargoyle mirror. Your doppelganger sloppy at the mouth And swollen at the jointsenacted your days in sinuous slow motion, your lines delivered With a mocking sneer. Sometimes the frame froze, reversed, began again: the red eyes of a friend You cursed, your girl child cowered behind the drapes, parents alive again and puzzled by this new form. That’s why you crawled your way back into this life.

  4. Literary & poetic Elements • This poem has 10 stanzas • It has 28 lines • It is a free-verse poem • Ballad • 3 lines every stanza except in the last one (only one is the last one)

  5. Figurative Meaning • In this poem, not only is it a story in a way, but the figurative meaning is a story, or journey, as well. In the beginning, someone has strayed against God. They’re making bad decisions. Then the “side effects,” so to speak, are starting to show, but they couldn’t see the bad in it. They didn’t see how it could hurt anyone or themselves. They saw good in it. Then they started to see the bad, but kept going. Then they lost control completely. They lost their handle on the situation and just let go. They gave up. They didn’t care anymore. But then they fought back. They came back because they didn’t want to live like that anymore, they knew it was wrong. Figurative: I relate this to sin. There are many things it could relate to, but I think of sin and bad decisions.

  6. Literal Meaning • In the literal meaning someone is taking a journey with the devil, they are getting a tour of the real Hell. Not what they thought it was. They see crazy things like factory lines where molten lead spills into mouths (EW!), and other crazy things. The devil takes control of them and they are taken away but then they fight their way back into real life.

  7. Resources: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Karr • http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mary-karr • http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/171882 • http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poet/mary-karr

  8. Thanks for watching!!!!

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