Linda Pastan's Jump Cabling and Ethics are poems narrated by the poet
             herself. Both may be experiences in life that Linda had encountered. In
             terms of the poems' formation, they are similar in the way they were
             written, since both are actually stories written in a structure of a poem.
             They don't have divisions or stanzas of equivalent lines or syllables.
             Both Jump Cabling and Ethics are not characterized by any common properties
             of a typical poem. For instance, the last syllable of each line of most
             poems rhymes with the last syllable of its previous line. Or, rhyming is
             done alternately. In Jump Cabling and Ethics, however, there are no
             rhyming syllables. This, I can say, is one of the unique characteristics
             Jump Cabling and Ethics are narrative poems. The way the poems were
             presented somehow reveals a feeling of recollection. The tone was calm as
             if the narrator sincerely thinks of her past experience, like she's really
             giving time for her thoughts of that event. Both poems illustrate a woman
             telling a story in her life. This makes the language used in the poems
             tender and warm, especially the poem Jump Cabling that illustrates a woman
             who narrates an experience of love -- a narration that can make a reader
             feel that the words come from her heart. An instance of which are the
             When we were bound together
             By a pulse of pure energy,
             Even the first two lines of Jump Cabling would already reveal a deep
             feeling from the narrator's heart. Something like a silent and deep sigh.
             When our cars touched,
             When you lifted the hood of mine
             In Ethics, on the other hand, there is also a tone of tenderness and
             warmth. These though were revealed in the last few lines of the poem when
             the woman was in the museum, realizing that the old woman in an ethics
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