How to figure out this poem:

• Read the entire poem aloud.
• Read aloud what is outside of the parenthesis. Write it out if necessary.
• Read aloud what is inside the parenthesis. Write it out if that helps.
• Read it all again.
• See the two poems there?
• Who are the two groups speaking at each other?
• How do the parenthesis fit with the content? Why write it that way?