Questions:

1. Who is the speaker (or speakers) in the poem?

2. What point of view was used in the poem?

3. How is the poem divided? Does it have multiple stanzas or just one?

4. Is there a rhyme scheme? If so, what is it?

5. Are there examples of figurative language? (similes, metaphors, assonance, hyperbole, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc.) If so, what are they?

6. Cite the lines that present the use of Imagery.

7. What is the attitude or tone of the poem?

First, A Poem Must Be Magical
By: Jose Garcia Villa

First, a poem must be magical,
Then musical as a sea gull.
It must be a brightness moving
And hold secret a bird’s flowering.
It must be slender as a bell,
And it must hold fire as well.
It must have the wisdom of bows.
And it must kneel like a rose.
It must be able to hear
the luminance of dove and deer.
It must be able to hide
what it seeks, like a bride.
And over all I would like to hover
God, smiling from the poem’s cover. ​​