Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Linda McCarriston states that "poetry allows the individual experience to strike ... which begins the third stanza. The reader can sense the purposeful stride of the narrator from the long length of this first sentence. The carefully placed comas, dashes, italics and quotes has the reader pausing at...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Feeling Poetry Linda McCarriston shapes feelings of anger, rage, contempt and healing in her poetry through narration, metaphors with detailed sensory language as she unfolds the painful story of sexual abuse and family abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. In an interview with Bill Moyers, Linda McCarriston states that "poetry allows the individual experience to strike ... which begins the third stanza. The reader can sense the purposeful stride of the narrator from the long length of this first sentence. The carefully placed comas, dashes, italics and quotes has the reader pausing at...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School