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Hall of Records BY PETER SPAGNUOLO

 Hall of Records

There’s a clever thing, stabs at her hand   (embedded/tries to stick into hand/hand stabbing incessantly)
on every corner now, revising the screed.     enjambment, makes us ruminate on clever thing: AI
Watch her huff at the tiny screens that send   /autocorrect?   
her chimpish copy up the line, to speed         metaphor of texting on internet
the raising of the giddy, pixelled hall:
cornerless, mirror-tiled, the gorging sphere     WWW       visual imagery
a fast-receding shell enclosing all               enjambment
we say or see, never to disappear,
bigger with each second, and the next,           decribing INTERNET
its facets auto-replicant, until
the Record of  what was — each fingered text  time and value spent on the www affects our present
and pic, the starry shards the hours distill —          significant time spent/addiction
impounds what is, slaves us in its spell: cannot deny that it takes part/over our lives
sorting the diamonds in our dazzling cell.

2nd-3rd part: /until/ when it is small, we control, we still hold majority of time; when it grow big, we lose ourselves inside it.
ANALYSIS
the Record of  what was — each fingered text
and pic, the starry shards the hours distill —
impounds what is,
: example/ in the presnt, I will still be fixated in the past because-Following up with comments and likes-Fixating on posting up new updates- steals away from the experience, takes away the significance and gifts of the 'present' (going to a play and filming it instead of watching it)


-diction: rife with imagery, unsettling connotations to technology: giddy/cornerless/gorging/fast-receding/enclosing/slaves/cell

-tone: revelatory, forceful, critical, Cynical, direct, honest, troubling, cryptic
;negative connotations, confronts uncomfortable topic, pursuit of truth

derisive/authoritative/satirical :Watch her huff at the tiny screens that send  
her chimpish copy up the line, to speed  

-imagery: huff(kin/aud) visual:cornerless, mirror-tiled, the gorging sphere

-sound: enjambment, alliteration: slaves…spell, diamonds…dazzling

-form: open  form; free verse; 

What is your understanding of the poem?
a) What is it about? 

 Themes?
technological abuse: dangers of addiction> information and the internet

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