Topics for Further Study
Stroll through a natural environment: the forest, the shoreline, or a park. Compose a poem about your observations. Do your emotions influence your descriptions in any way?
Investigate theories of memory and forgetting. How does your research connect to the narrator in “Tonight I Can Write”?
Examine and compare the expressions of despair in W. H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” and Neruda’s “Song of Despair.” How does each poem's style convey its theme?
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