Eng- Annotate poem and discussion (need in 18 hours )

2- Discussion

Empathy in Poetry

1-) Climb into the skin of the persona of the following poem: "Love in Place" and explain "your" experience. First, identify the poem and describe the situation in a sentence; then describe "your" (the persona's ) feelings about the situation by choosing one or two words or phrases and explain how they shape the experience.  Your post should be about 100 - 150 words long. 

2-) Comment on one peer’s response.

Peers’ responses:

First person’s response :

The poem “Love in Place” by Nikki Giovanni is explaining how she viewed love through her eyes.  I really like Nikki Giovanni's poem because it is simple and honest and the poem explains how she doesn’t remember falling in love but remembers other things like cooking and baking. In this writing, she describes a sort of "Love in place" as in a stay still position not going anywhere and not changing. She says "I know I must have fallen in love once because I quit biting my cuticles and my hair is gray". In a way I think she is signifying that she has maybe changed her appearance as if to stay in love by not biting her cuticles and nails.

Second Person’s response :

Love in Place by Nikki Giovanni, can be framed in the word Growth. She cant remember falling in love but the things she did in love. And though time has passed, she still is committed to love. Though she does not remember falling in love as stated in line 1 of the first paragraph, she knows she must have fallen in love once because, she quit biting her cuticles as indicated in line 1 and 2 of the second paragraph. As a kid there are several bad habits which one picks up such as bitting cuticles, but when one starts becoming self conscious, and trying to impress another generally of the opposite sex these habits are abandoned. And this is an indication of growth. Again, she states in line 3 that '...all of a sudden had deeper appreciation for Billie Holiday and Billy Strayhorn...", who were jazz musicians whose songs were emotional, this follows Shakespeare phrase which states that "... if music be the food of love play it on...".