In Ruth Forman's "Poetry Should Ride the Bus," how do the images in each stanza reveal the speaker's attitude toward poetry? Do you agree with the...

The poem
argues that poetry should be a bright, positive force that is interwoven into the fabric of
everyday life, not "out there" in a dusty library tome nobody reads.

In the first stanza, Forman uses theof a polka-dotted dress and doing cartwheels down
the street to show how poetry can brighten and sustain us in a childlike way even as we pass
unhappy scenes such as crack houses. This imagery and juxtaposition of poetry's brightness with
the dark elements of society continues in the second stanza, when Forman compares a poem to
"bright red lipstick" and being pretty even as men shoot "craps" around the
corner.

should also wear "plum suits" but not be so
"educated" it can't sit on the porch steps with ordinary people and chat. It should be
tucked between dinner foods like greens and chicken wings. Poetry should bring hope and
"revolution" into everyday life.

All these metaphors describe
poetry as a form that should be written in everyday language that anyone can
understand....