In 1-2 sentences, please explain the author's main idea of the poem. Why?
I Love the Look of Words
Popcorn leaps, popping from the floor
of a hot black skillet
and into my mouth.

Black words leap,
snapping from the white
page. Rushing into my eyes. Sliding
Into my brain which gobbles them
the way my tongue and teeth
chomp the buttered popcorn.

When I have stopped reading,
ideas from the words stay stuck
in my mind, like the sweet
smell of butter perfuming my
fingers long after the popcorn
is finished.

I love the book and the look of words
the weight of ideas that popped into my mind
I love the tracks
of new thinking in my mind.

-Maya Angelou


Omar
2/5/2012 04:58:02 am

I think, from looking at the first paragraph, the author is describing words.

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anonomous
2/13/2012 07:34:59 am

okay omar but did you like read th rest!!!!!!!!!

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Nick????
2/7/2012 08:26:12 am

I think that the authors main idea is to persuade people to read books by comparing the books to buttery popcorn

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2/7/2012 08:32:53 am

I think that the author's main idea was to express that she likes books because she is comparing them to popcorn.

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JJ
2/7/2012 09:21:24 am

I think the author was trying to express her feelings about books. I think she put in the perspective of eating buttery popcorn to make it fun and interesting!!!!

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Hunter Lane
2/7/2012 11:25:34 am

I think that the author was expressing her interest in reading and buttered popcorn.

;)

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diego o'hare
2/8/2012 06:53:31 am

I think the author was stating how much she loved to read, by comparing reading to popcorn.

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J@<K
2/8/2012 09:58:55 am

I think that the author is expressing how much he loves to read. Then the author compares his love with popcorn.


:3

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Daniel Girten
2/8/2012 11:11:22 am

I think that the author is telling about their love for books because, in the text it states"like the sweet smell of butter" which tells how much he/she likes to read.

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2/12/2012 08:19:48 am

I think the main idea is how she loves books because in the text it states "I love the book and the look of words..."

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anonomous
2/13/2012 07:12:43 am

why did only a couple people respond?

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Jared
2/13/2012 07:31:18 am

a anonomous you spell that word like this anonymous

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Jared
2/13/2012 07:33:50 am

I think the author is describing her love for books with figurative language and a metafor comparing popcorn to words

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2/26/2012 08:14:25 am

ha

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7/16/2012 08:44:47 am

will return shortly

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9/30/2012 06:12:04 pm

THX for info

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