Plants
Plants seem important to this poem, and we don't mean the potted kind either. Half of the poem's stanzas focus on plants you would find in nature, even if they're just in someone's garden: roses an...
Transportation
Just as the speaker focuses on plant life in the first two stanzas, we get planes, trains, and automobiles in the last two stanzas. Okay, so maybe there are no planes in this poem. All the same, tw...
The Invisible
What lies beneath, Shmoopers? It's more than a spooky flick. It's a philosophy question. What might exist beyond the limits of our vision or understanding? That's the kind of question that's keepin...
Personification
Look—we love dancing roses as much as the next person, Shmoopers. At the same time, we know personification when it smacks us in the face. In this poem, roses, trees, cars, and trains are all end...