The Yellow Palm

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How does the poet in the yellow palm present a character? Choose a second poem in which a character is also significant.! ! In the yellow palm in the 5th stanza the poet decides to introduce a character and this is the tipping point of this poem. This character is a young beggar child. The tipping point in at the border is in the 4th stanza and this is when the girls mother tells her “we are going home.” this quotation shows that they are finally going back to their homeland and getting away from the conflict and war. This is the tipping point because from this point onwards they describe what their home is like.! ! The yellow palm is a measured poem. It has 6 lines within each of the 6 stanzas. Also each 2nd, 4th, and 6th line rhyme and in stanza two the line sequence goes A,B,C,B,D,B. This is a lot different to the structure of at the border because it is not structured. The stanzas in at the border are not equal and the lines vary in length. The good thing about a random line order is that it can make a really important line stand out easier.! ! At the border is written in 1st person, it says “I was five years old” this shows that it is a personal account in the past making it clear it is a childhood memory. In the yellow palm every first line of each stanza says “As I made my way down Palestine street” this shows it is written in the 1st person. But apart from every first line in each stanza the rest of the poem is written in the 3rd person.! ! ! At the border seems to include a lot of different people for example her sister and mother that stand with her inline waiting to cross the border. Then all of the other dozens of families waiting inline too. Whereas in the yellow palm it mainly includes himself.! A similarity between the two poems is that they are both based on conflict. In the yellow palm it says “I saw a cruise missile” this shows

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