Read the stanza below and answer the question.
My first flash
on the newsprint/face
she could have been
obachan
back then/just after
the camps
when the land/dried/up
no water for months.
In at least 125 words, discuss Mirikitani's use of the virgule in this selection and its different effect in each line in which it is used.
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A slash or a stroke is considered to be a virgule which helps in the division of the words in the poem. This also causes an effect of deepening in the poem. The position of the virgule determines the facing position of the newspaper or is the face of the woman on the newspaper. The back then/ just explains looking back to the camps or to the future. Land/dried/up explains effect, tragedy, and trauma of the camps
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