Today I provided instruction on how poetic techniques such as structure, metaphor, alliteration , and enjambment convey or create meaning. Using a poem from Max's required list of poetry, I first listed the poem's overarching message about past/present/ sickness /health and explained how these ideas are evidenced in contrasting juxtaposed diction within the poem. I further explained poetic enjambment and how the poem's flowing from line to line and stanza to stanza represents how seamlessly health can become sickness., life can become death.We also analyzed the poem's use of metaphors , such as an" avalanche" to suggest that these changes in life are ineluctable .