What do you say? As you read “I Am Offering This Poem” and ” Since Feeling is First,” suppose you were the person being addressed in Baca’s or Cummings’s poem. Write your answer to the speaker or in a verse.

What do you say? As you read “I Am Offering This Poem” and ” Since Feeling is First,” suppose you were the person being addressed in Baca’s or Cummings’s poem. Write your answer to the speaker or in a verse. Do you like what the speaker says to you or about you, or are you feeling something else? Who is the speaker, in your imagination?