Summary Of The Best Slow Dancer
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“The Best Slow Dancer” by David Wagoner shows an insecure man that is dancing with a girl of his dreams. Wagoner uses second person and poetic devices such as enjambment and slant rhyme to show that the narrator wants this dance to last forever. In “The Best Slow Dancer”, second-person words like “your” and “you” keep the reader as well as the narrator in the moment. It also shows that the narrator is reminiscing the dance with the girl. A poetic device that the author uses to describe the narrator wanting the memories to be everlasting is the use of enjambment, the last line of the poem, “Alone to whisper yourself to sleep remember (28).” is the only line that ends with a period. The large amount of enjambment throughout the entire