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Trouble With Math In A One-Room Country School
"Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School" is broken into 25 lines and divided into three stanzas; it can be considered not just a free verse poem but also an anecdote. In the context of the title, which obviously states trouble with math, the meaning of the first line is clear: the poem’s speaker is a student left behind while all the rest have begun working on a test or quiz of some sort for division. The student resorts to asking for help from her neighbor. In the 3rd to 7th lines we know by implication that this “neighbor” is farm girl whose family is likely quite religious. She brings not only “raw milk” to school but also the “raw” image of Christ baring his heart and wounds. This creates visual image for the reader. In stanza
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