Breanna jones

1. Breanna jones

2. A B C D E F G G H I J K L M N O barber Learn from the man who spends much of his life speaking To the back of your head knowing what it means to follow The razor’s edge along a worn strop or random thoughts As they spring so invisibly from the mind to a mouth Who shouldered soldiers in two wars and fled fire fields Undecorated who fathered once but was fatherless forever And who works his sentiments in deeper into your scalp Under a sign on the knotty-pine walls whose rubric reads quothomines, tot sententiaewhich means he sees In you his suffering smells of horehound tonics and gels Pillow heads and powders and a floor full of snippings Swept neatly every evening into a pile for the field mice All those roundabout hours only a man who fixes his tie To clip crabgrass crowding a lady’s grave could believe With a certain clean devotion and who would never for one Moment dream of hurting you when your back was turned

3. Repetition- its there because the poet was trying to show off the f sounds because they repeated. • Fled fire fields • Walls whose

4. 16 lines • 8 stanzas

5. Lyrical- mostly rhyming • You could sing it.

6. Literal- its about a barber sweeping a pile of snipping's for the field mice and about a man crowding a woman's grave and war. • Figurative- woman's grave, war, field mice, razor edge.

7. Imagery- I see mice rolling around in hair and a barber working stuff into your scalp and I also see people fighting at war.

8. Larry Bradley- he is a barber and he is an old guy and he is reading the poem.

9. An old man is reading the poem

10. purpose • Larry Bradley's purpose was to tell people to follow there dreams and that there dreams will never let you fail. He was also telling them from an elders point of view.

11. Websites • http://www.poetryoutloud.org/