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Not Today, Easy Circumstance, By Emily Fragos
This portfolio includes poetry works that I have written and revised during the duration of this class. In this portfolio there are three poems: Not Today, Easy Circumstance, and Azula Responds to the Face Stealer trying to Steal Her Face. Not Today is my imitation poem based on a Sadness of Clothes by Emily Fragos. Not Today is one my strongest poems in this portfolio because it properly utilizes my emotion and allows my reader to feel what I experience during this period. While revising this poem I made few edits because the way I wrote it tied my emotions together perfectly. Easy Circumstance is the strongest poem in my portfolio, it takes a very personal story and allows the reader to visualize it. When I revised this poem I wanted to be
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