Pentecost by Derek Walcott

Please write 2 double spaced analysis essay (MLA Format) about the highlighted lines in the following poem (only analyze the highlighted!!):

Better a jungle in the head

than rootless concrete.

Better to stand bewildered

by the fireflies’ crooked street;

winter lamps do not show

where the sidewalk is lost,

nor can these tongues of snow

speak for the Holy Ghost;

the self-increasing silence

of words dropped from a roof

points along iron railings,

direction, in not proof.

But best is this night surf

with slow scriptures of sand,

that sends, not quite a seraph,

but a late cormorant,

whose fading cry propels

through phosphorescent shoal

what, in my childhood gospels,

used to be called the Soul.

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/derek_walcott/poems/11266

link might help in analysis:

http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2003/12/pentecost-derek-walcott.html

please analyze in the same way as the teacher did in the following examples:

she analysis the tune, the mood, and the verbs and nouns in each example of lines selected

also you can get directions of what the teacher would like you to analyze in the paper from this page:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/615/01/

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