refers to a tree

the language used here is very harsh and violent

This line and a few of the following lines show how much the rooster affects in the town.

Shows how the roosters act

I love the descriptive language she uses

It seems as though his dreams are never fulfilled. He never seems to reach his ultimate desired place.

He seems alienated here

He falls back in fear of the unknown

This kind of alludes to the Man-Moth existing between two worlds

seems concerned because of how dirty the station is and how easily it can ignite

inquiring about this family at the gas station

describing the sons as "dirty" like the station

The armadillo image and rabbit image seemed to show survival

These few lines showed so much destruction. Man-made destruction since it came from the "illegal fire balloons".

I love the imagery that Bishop uses throughout this piece!

These lines made me think that she was very curious and was in search for something.

I really loved the rhyme scheme she used in this piece. As a reader, it flowed so effortlessly.

This line is used as a title in another piece by Edna St. Vincent Millay. I think it's interesting that she also placed it here.

I felt this piece was explaining the desire that she had to go places. She did not really care where she was going, but she did not want to stay stagnant.

This line alluded to the fact that where she stayed was somewhere that no one would want to be. This kind of gave this sense of loneliness or solitude.

I loved the repetition of some form of this line! I think it was a great way to structure this piece and move the reader from one stanza to another.

This poem used so much description which made it so beautiful even though a lot of it sounded kind of sad or aggressive.

Some of these lines were quite opposite from what I expected when I read the title of this piece. These two lines made the sunset sound almost aggressive.

Lowell does a really great job using imagery in her pieces. As I read this poem, these scenes that she is reminiscing on I could envision in my mind. She is able to use language in a way that allows the reader to feel as though they are seeing exactly what she describes.

I felt this line demonstrated the intimacy of this piece because it seems as though she is directly talking to someone. I felt as thought she is continually reassuring this person that life will continue as normal when she passes.

Throughout this piece she is reassuring her loved ones that they will be okay when she dies. She says that these external things have become a part of her and will always be there after she passes.

I felt as though Lowell is admiring someone she really loves here. As she stands on the sands where she is anchored to the earth, her beloved rises to a more exalted state. This image is much like the one in Botticelli's painting of Venus' birth.

I read this piece before looking at the painting by Botticelli and was able to envision what this painting must have looked like. Once I saw the actual painting, I was really surprised the similarities between what I read and what I saw in the painting. That insight really proved to me how well Lowell is able to use imagery in her pieces.

I really enjoyed this piece because of the imagery that Lowell uses. She incorporates nature so effortlessly and is able to give this poem a lighter attitude despite the war surrounding her. I felt the first few lines gave this poem a magical ambiance as she describes this particular afternoon.

The events of history around September 1918 were filled with war and turmoil throughout the world. The first half of this poem describes how Lowell sees an afternoon in a world without war. She describes it as very joyful and peaceful. The second part describes how she can only "gather it" now due to the war occurring at the time.

I thought this was a beautifully written piece! I loved how Sarton used natural elements and intertwined this love story into them. I also noticed a few switches in emotions. A line that stood out to me was, "The delicate delight of that first kiss" (14). The use of simple language really embodied the nervous, but excited emotions of this important life event.

I thought this piece was really sad. Sarton is explaining the natural land that was in a sense destroyed by the farmers. The first two lines are repeated in the last two lines which I felt was Sarton emphasizing how the land originally was. A line that really stood out to me was, "The young shoots of a different kind of planting" (236). Instead of the native grasses growing, the farmers are growing crops on the land.

I really love the metaphor Sarton uses to compare how happiness grows and how a tree grows. We cannot see the roots or the rings growing in a tree, yet we can see the overall outward changes. Sarton explains how happiness grows invisibly in a person, but what is seen is the outward expression. I had never really thought about happiness in this way. It also made me think about how other emotions grow within individuals.

This piece reminds me of a dialogue between the narrator and March. Dickinson uses personification when referring to March. The tone of this piece is very different from many of the other pieces we have read by her. It is much more light-hearted and even humorous. Her use of language and imagery also caused me to envision this conversation happening in person.

Dickinson talks about how her death will be peaceful due to the world continuing to function when she is gone. This piece is one that really depicts how "death-obsessed" she truly was.

In this line Dickinson discusses how life will continue even if she were to die. She seems comforted knowing this.

Dickinson is trying to learn how to forget throughout this poem. However, she is not able to find an answer after searching for ways and places to learn how to forget. Most people want to remember things, but I assume there are specific things in Dickinson's past that she is trying to forget.

I think here she is referring to how her insanity has separated her from other human beings. She has become a part of "some strange Race" as insanity takes over.

I think Dickinson is referring to the death of her rationality. This piece follows her journey from sanity to insanity.

I felt this line highlighted how dangerous fame/power can be. Many who become famous or gain a sense of power become completely consumed by it. There is this death of their old self as fame/power births a new person in a sense.

This line reminded me of fame today. It's constantly changing as trends, society, and people change.

I felt the tone of this poem seemed sad and lonely. These last few lines seem as though the speaker is missing something or in search of something.

The "crimson" here is referring to the bloodshed on the battlefield. The "burning leaf" is referring to the lives that are lost.

These lines really reminded me of the Statue of Liberty how her torch reaches towards the sky and how she is a representation of freedom. This ties in with women being empowered to do things that were not socially acceptable at the time.

I understood this poem to be referring to a strong leader (the Shepard) that is influencing and guiding a large following and doing so even after death.

The somber tone throughout the piece comes together at the end in this stanza. This piece had a very dark and morbid feel through the language that is used. I especially felt this in the lines, "She watched him till the arms of death / Laid her upon the earth's calm breast."

This piece really shows Annie Fields' love for nature. Not only this piece, but in many others I saw this consistent connection with nature.

Here she is using personification with the trees. She uses a lot of personification with nature in this piece.

These lines really display Sarah One Jewett's use of imagery which immediately painted a picture in my mind. I believe her use of imagery really shows the connection she had with nature.

These lines show some internal conflict of Hannah and Betsey. They are finally free from their father's requirements, but the years of being "patient slaves" still remains. They feel uneasy about their father's grave in the dark without anyone to watch it, while they sit in the warm light.

These last two lines were really dark and sad. The dishonesty of Jenny years ago led to both of the brothers dying unmarried. This story was very morbid and shows how dishonesty can affect lives for years.

The reappearance of Will after he was thought to be dead was startling. I don't think he thought his disappearance would have led to such turmoil for other characters.

Jenny's death is kind of karma for her actions earlier in the story. Although this is morbid and dark, we see that the dishonesty of this character only led to her unfortunate death.

These lines were really heartbreaking as Jenny realizes that she is the reason for Dick's life sentence and Will's supposed murder. She expresses that she always liked Dick and only went with Will as a "test" to see if Dick was faithful and devoted to her. However, her actions just caused suffering for everyone.

The way she describes the environment in these lines shows the appreciation of the small things. Most people driving through this setting would only notice the desolate land, but she describes the little populations of wildlife that make their living here.

The use of imagery here paints such a lovely image in the reader's mind and helps the reader to connect to the piece.

I thought these lines were really sad in a sense as we see how Georgie shut himself out from the world as a way to cope with the death of his mother. However, he put his sadness into the passion of fishing.