Read the poem below and answer the question that follows.




“Blazon”

by Cecilia Woloch


—after Breton


My love with his hair of nightingales

With his chest of pigeon flutter, of gray doves preening themselves at dawn

With his shoulders of tender balconies half in shadow, half in sun

My love with his long-boned thighs the map of Paris of my tongue

With his ink-stained tongue, his tongue the tip

of a steeple plunged into milky sky

My love with his wishing teeth

With his fingers of nervous whispering, his fingers of a boy

whose toys were cheap and broken easily

My love with his silent thumbs

With his eyes of a window smudged of a train that passes in the night

With his nape of an empty rain coat

hung by the collar, sweetly bowed

My love with his laughter of an empty stairwell, rain all afternoon

With his mouth the deepest flower to which

I have ever put my mouth


Source: Woloch, Cecilia. “Blazon.” Blogalicious. Diane Lockward, 17 Jan. 2010. Web. 17 May 2011.




What makes this poem a blazon?


The poet uses rhyme and iambic pentameter.

The poet compares her love to beautiful things in nature.

The poem is written as a modern sonnet.

The poem uses hyperbole and imagery.