Deep into es-es-essay

The poem with the ending "W-o-te-M" by Patricia Grace, is a poem which deals with nature, life, and death. Grace uses structure, personification, and assonance, to form these points in her poem. Her poem involves nature, yet it also involves death, with a mix of giving life.

The poem is made up of three stanzas, each with six lines. This forms the number 666, which can be seen as the devils number in the bible. The number three, which is the number of stanzas in this poem, is also seen in other literary works including the bible. The poem ends up feeling very dark, since most literary works with these numbers are also very dark. The number of syllables in each line go from one to six, but none of them have five syllables. The number five, can be also related to the bible, but is related more to Christ and his five wounds. The structure helps by showing a sort of evil in the nature of the world, and the nature of the poem. When the poem is read outloud, it sounds like a chant. A spiritual song calling out to nature, or mother nature about her dead child.

The reader may believe the poem shows the good side of nature, since the poem makes it appear warm in loving at the beginning "Sky love earth" "earth give life." Nature in the poem is personified to sound like a loving mother "Turn breast to chi-i-ld." This chant like poem represents this "mother" like surroundings as good. What becomes bad is the child who is born. The child "steal light" and makes the rain turn away. The rain brings life, but without rain, thier is death. There is an actual murder of the earth "thrust bright sword deep into ea-ea-earth." The birth of this child, has created the death of its surrounding. The mother "bleed"s, and the child who has caused this "die"s. The child was only born, but is "already dead."

There is also alliteration and assonance, which creates an even more chant like feel to the poem. Each phrase starts with a consonance, except for the fifth line in the first stanza, and the sixth line in the last stanza, "Earth give life" "Already Dead." The mome also has a repetition of vowels in the world "ra-ai-ain" and "ea-ea-earth."

I believe the poet is trying to show a darkness of humanity, the child, and how it has created its own death in the life it was given by earth. The use of structure, aswell as personification and repition, allows this idea to manifest itself. Therfore becoming a chant like poem, to mourn the self destruction of nature upon nature.