Sean's Group: "A Martian Sends a Postcard Home"
FYI: William Caxton (c. 1415~1422 – c. March 1492) was an English merchant, diplomat, writer and printer. He was the first English person to work as a printer and the first person to introduce a printing press into England. (Wikipedia)
So why does the author begin poem with "Caxton"?
Connotation:a list of literary term
Need to apply these terms to your poem...need more than just a definition!
Epistle: a composition in the form of a letter ;is the postcard
Martian is the speaker: the one who is narrating the poem or writing
Metaphor: a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them, each of the , each of the stanzas are taking an earthly idea and translating it into terms that the martians can understand.
Free Verse: verse whose meter is irregular in some respect or whose rhythm is not metrical, in this poem, there aren't definite ends to stanzas.
Couplet: a couple lines of poetry, the whole thing was written in couplets
The tone of the poem is explanatory a particular quality, way of sounding, modulation, or intonation of the voice as expressive of some meaning
The shift of the poem comes when the martian starts talking about the houses in which people live. The shift is a change in the topic by the author of the poem
The title of the poem means that the martian sends a postcard home;the title is what a written work is called.
The theme is a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic, in this poem, is the fact that people from different backgrounds percieve things differently, and therefore we should not discount them automatically; like the martian percieved the humans as different as we would, us being humans and all.