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media type="youtube" key="_1MHVqAWGmI?fs=1" height="385" width="480" Undivided Attention by Taylor Mali.

He is talking about student's attention to him. EXAMPLES? He made this poem interestingly. HOW?

USE OF POETIC DEVISES? 4/10

A grand piano wrapped in quilted pads by movers, tied up with canvas straps - like classical music's birthday gift to the insane - is gently nudged without its legs out an eighth-floor window on 62nd street. It dangles in April air from the neck of the movers' crane, Chopin-shiny black lacquer squares and dirty white crisscross patterns hanging like the second-to-last note of a concerto played on the edge of the seat, the edge of tears, the edge of eight stories up going over, and I'm trying to teach math in the building across the street. Who can teach when there are such lessons to be learned? All the greatest common factors are delivered by long-necked cranes and flatbed trucks or come through everything, even air. Like snow. See, snow falls for the first time every year, and every year my students rush to the window as if snow were more interesting than math, which, of course, it is. So please. Let me teach like a Steinway, spinning slowly in April air, so almost-falling, so hinderingly dangling from the neck of the movers' crane. So on the edge of losing everything. Let me teach like the first snow, falling.

﻿As you can see, he says it is annoying when student`s attention is at different thing not math. He used simile to describe how it is like. He also explain it using words which he already talked. The end of the part, he uses snow and crane, he used it in examples of when students is not attention to him. He repeated the words so that is pretty skillful. I have same feeling as him. It is very interesting when snow, or something happening outside, but it sometimes is very annoying. I choose this, because this is very good poem, and I have feeling of it too.