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FAMOUS BY NAOMI SHAHAB NYE Colby miller
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FAMOUS NAOMI SHIHAB NYENAOMI SHIHAB NYE Famous By Naomi Shihab NyeNaomi Shihab Nye The river is famous to the fish. The loud voice is famous to silence, which knew it would inherit the earth before anybody said so. The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds watching him from the birdhouse. The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek. The idea you carry close to your bosom is famous to your bosom. The boot is famous to the earth, more famous than the dress shoe, which is famous only to floors. The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it and not at all famous to the one who is pictured. I want to be famous to shuffling men who smile while crossing streets, sticky children in grocery lines, famous as the one who smiled back. I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular, but because it never forgot what it could do.
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NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Naomi Shihab Nye was born on March 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri. her Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Palestine, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she later received her BA in English and world religions from Trinity University. She a author for kids and make kid books
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FAMOUS Has 21 lines 9 stanzas Free verse
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SPEAKER A mother Sounds like a mother say to her son that everything is famous to some thing
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IMAGERY The river is famous to the fish
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IMAGERY The boot is famous to the earth
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IMAGERY The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds watching him from the birdhouse
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POETIC LITERARY TERMS Refashion Metaphor Sensor details Personification
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LITERAL MEANING The cat sleeping on the fence The river is famous to the The photograph that is bent is famous to the one who carries it The floor is famous to the dress shoe
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FIGURATIVE MEANING Figurative meaning is that every thing means something to every one
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AUTHORS PURPOSE The purpose of the pome famous is to show how much some thing could mean to some one
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THEME The theme of the pome famous is that every thing is famous to some one that mean that every thing means something to some one
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By Colby miller
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