Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Jane's "My weather"

My Weather

By Jane Hirshfield b. 1953Jane Hirshfield
Wakeful, sleepy, hungry, anxious,
restless, stunned, relieved.

Does a tree also?
A mountain?

A cup holds
sugar, flour, three large rabbit-breaths of air.

I hold these.

       - All the words in the first two lines is setting the mood and is visually putting out images for the readers . These words can be used as adjectives or adverbs . A tree and mountain is compared in line 3 and 4. She tells whats in a cup and what it holds .Rabbit-breaths of air symbolizes something deeper.

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