Can someone please analyze the form, tone, imagery, and politics of the "the quiet world" by Jeffrey McDaniel?

Question

I really suck a analyzing poetry. So I really need your help on this one. here's the URL for the poem: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-quiet-world/

Answer 1

The Quiet World

  

In an effort to get people to look

into each other's eyes more,

and also to appease the mutes,

the government has decided

to allot each person exactly one hundred

and sixty-seven words, per day.

When the phone rings, I put it to my ear

without saying hello. In the restaurant

I point at chicken noodle soup.

I am adjusting well to the new way.

Late at night, I call my long distance lover,

proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.

I saved the rest for you.

When she doesn't respond,

I know she's used up all her words,

so I slowly whisper I love you

thirty-two and a third times.

After that, we just sit on the line

and listen to each other breathe.

Tone is comic-serious - ie he is making a point about the interference of government in individual's lives, but in a comic way.

It is written in Free Form

Politics - a desire for individual freedom/to strike a blow agains political correctness (reference to mutes)

Imagery is realistic - no symbolism no metaphors, no similes....just a person doing what people do (ordering soup) talking to lover on telephone.

Answer 2

i am not going to telll you what to o cos it is real boring and i cud b er 4 sum time but my teacher tort me to anylise poems using FLIRT . F- form , L = language , I = Imargery . R = rhythm and t = tone if this helpd please rate me as your best answer

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