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ChampagneSupernova

Hello my name is Rebecca, I'm 22 years old, a part-time student / past-time sales assistant. I love to read and I love to write both prose and poetry.

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  • There is a definite voice and character in this poem that really brings it alive. The last stanza is powerful in its humourous, self-realisation that a stove may not be considered furniture. It asks us to question the objects in our lives and the conventions of living that we assume to be 'the best' but in fact restrict us. We must clear the room of our mind of funiture (and stoves) and let our imagination take over...

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  • Some great phrases in this poem that I loved. "clothes strewn in geometric defying randomness" and "Cultivated tender shoots of hope among
    branches of despair". There was an abundance of imagery as you felt as if you were going on a journey only to end up paradoxically end up "in [the] exact same spot" although for the reader, we are all the better for it.

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