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AAFTER US In this poem, the poet uses a surplus of imagery to allow the reader to fully see what she is trying to get us to picture. In the first line, she talks about how rain, which can be destructive or helpful, is seeping into a room where books and other material things reside. In the lines to follow, she writes about how everything that flourished under the sun, turned away to try and find the light that they so desperately need. This shows the destructive side to rain because it paints the picture of a dark day with rain falling and silencing all activities that happen during the day. In the second paragraph, the poet writes about a portrait, which has sketches of boats and barns and this creates the image of a perfect utopia where everything is peaceful and nothing has disturbed it. The paragraph that follows this peaceful picture, is where the foreboding and evil rain begins to make its appearance again. She writes about how everything that was ever thought of or invented or t
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After Us

AAFTER US

In this poem, the poet uses a surplus of imagery to allow the reader to fully see what she is trying to get us to picture. In the first line, she talks about how rain, which can be destructive or helpful, is seeping into a room where books and other material things reside. In the lines to follow, she writes about how everything that flourished under the sun, turned away to try and find the light that they so desperately need. This shows the destructive side to rain because it paints the picture of a dark day with rain falling and silencing all activities that happen during the day. In the second paragraph, the poet writes about a portrait, which has sketches of boats and barns and this creates the image of a perfect utopia where everything is peaceful and nothing has disturbed it. The paragraph that follows this peaceful picture, is where the foreboding and evil rain begins to make its appearance again. She writes about how everything that was ever thought of or invented or talked about was cruelly silenced by a dark and heartless rain. This is where the poem beings to take a turn, instead of going from happy imagery to being scarred by dark imagery, the poem begins to go into a darker tone, one that is almost hopeless and filled with sorrow. She begins this change with a metaphor which compares the color of the sky to the color of gravestones, which paints the picture of death. In the lines after this depressing statement, she begins to write about how rain becomes destructive like a tide that has the power to destroy things. After this climax, it begins too lower down in the dark tone and begins to soften in tone. The poet begins to talk about the past by talking about "millions, of billions of years" and from there it went back into the present in the next paragraph. The poem brings us back to a room again, and the rain is still falling through the roof, which indicates the poem ending right where it started. The ending talks about rain, and how it will continue to fall, no matter what.

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