Poem: Unexpected Visit Themes nature, death, misery, death, time, self interrogation, confusion

Thesis: This poem is fundamentally about Literal: A confused woman has gotten lost in a place that she usually goes

Figurative: Has different realities and has entered into one of them and is not sure which one that she is in

Images- stone lions, gleam like wet seals, paths trickling with water, green birds are stiff with dripping pride = representation of how a part of her is dead but she is still proud of that part of her; the stiffness comes from death and the green in the birds can be her youth and the errors that she has done in her youth.

Language/Literary Devices- metaphor, epiphany, appearance versus reality, repetition of I, simile, verbal irony, understatement

Form- run on sentences,

Mood-

Alternative perspective(1)Opened a usual door found death that brought the persona on a journey; the person is dead and saw how they were before and is being punished for she has done in her life.

Relate to poems like- For Andrew: tone of self meditation, interrogation, refusal to accept he denial of self is seen in both poems

Poem: For Andrew Themes inevitability of death, childhood innocence, fear, comforting somebody on a delicate subject

Thesis: This poem is fundamentally about Literal: Someone was asked if they will die and upon answering goes on a self reflection

Images- dutiful expression, sprung from whatever seeds = image of a garden and flowers are growing presenting an image of health and well-being, children straight-limbed, clear inquiring voices.

Language/Literary Devices- repetition, irony

Form- run on sentences, free verse, caesuras

Mood- hope, sorrow Alternative perspective- I becomes persona and is not the child that asks if he will die (2) The persona gains eternal life through doing various activities for example eating vegetables

Relate to poems like- Unexpected Visit: tone of self meditation, interrogation, refusal to accept he denial of self is seen in both poems.