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A rationale of 'Attention'

The main idea of my poem 'attention' was as the title indicates; attention. As a
person who has problems paying attention or staying focused on one thing, and who
has been invalidated several times on this matter, I thought that it would be
interesting to try and write my protest poem about it. The main structure of the
poem is four lines per stanza, but as visible the second and fifth stanza don't follow
this pattern. This is because in the second poem, I disturbed the regular pattern I
kept in order to add a disruptive effect, something that is usually the reason why my
attention drifts away. I also started to talk about a completely different topic in the
last line of that stanza, further on following on how easy it is to become distracted.
In the stanzas that were kept regular, I also tried to keep the rhyme scheme,
either going for the alternating rhyme ( as seen in the first stanza ) or a couplet ( as
seen in the last stanza). I didn't really think about which one I will use until I wrote
the words down, and I usually went with the one that was easiest to form and alter
the words into.
I also continued sentences to the following stanzas, as this poem can be
considered a brain dump, I just let my thoughts flow out into the document, without
really thinking where the line or stanza should end, that's why the lines vary in
length and meter.
I didn't use things such as metaphors or personifications, since I wanted this
poem to seem as real as possible, and I rather tried focusing on the auditory part of
the words I was choosing; I tried to pick the words that would sound the best
together in a rhyme, words that sound nice going after each other or just words that
I thought worked well together.
For example in the second line of the last stanza "instead of imagining an idle
day on the beach", I used three words that start with the letter "i". A similar effect is
created in the third stanza, where in the second and third lines I paid attention to
using words that start with a "b", to create a consonance. Also in the sixth and
seventh stanza, for the main rhyme I used words that end with "ity" and I managed
to carry the rhyme through two stanzas.
I used most of the poem to describe the issues people with attention problems
face, and I only used the last line of the poem: " Is inattentiveness really such a
crime?" to fully show the protest against the situation.
In the end, I focused more on the "auditory" literary devices rather than the
"visual" ones, since I wanted the poem to seem as real as possible, due to it talking
about a real life experience.

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