Wallflowers

This poem is about using unusual words in a poem and I love how the poet relates words to different places or rooms or moments in people's lives. She talks about words that are like shy shadows at a high school dance, and I really like that because words can be like that; the writer is just shy to use them. I know the feeling of learning a new word and how it makes the writer feel so much more intelligent because the writer can actually use the word in context. It's so nice to have a complex word that can describe multiple feelings. For the example the word "good" which is used over and over again, but when a new word is found to replace such a used word, it's marvelous. She relates unused words to orphan children which gives a vivid image of how words can actually feel abandoned and unused. Her imagery is very strong in this poem and gets her point across so much more clearly. This poem has five stanzas, yet there is no pattern to how many lines are in each. This structure gives the reader a more free flowing type of feel to the poem. This look into how unused words "feel" definitely painted a picture in my head and how many words are out there that I could still learn; it's very inspiring.