Did I Miss Anything Tom Wayman

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Just like every aspect of life, there are good and bad parts to every situation. Similarly, being a teacher has its good days, but also the bad days are present too, which are illustrated in Tom Wayman’s poem “Did I Miss Anything”. This poem depicted a story, not in one, but in two points of view, and through these two viewpoints Wayman was able to show a teachers perspective, and also a student’s perspective. Through this, Wayman was able to use imagery, repetition, and metaphors to further the meaning of the poem. The way I saw it, Wayman used imagery like a tug of war match, going back and forth between two sides. In this case between the teacher and student. The author described in stanza one, “Nothing. When we realized you weren't
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