Great Regulars: The speaker's memory of the past then

unsettles him; seeing the woman's picture made him feel "as though we there face to face." His "stomach tightened." But he read the article anyway, which he found unsatisfactory, because he wanted to know more about the woman than the families of the bride and groom. So he felt disappointed with the sparse information about his former girlfriend.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Dana Gioia's 'The Sunday News'

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The speaker describes her daily work: "I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick,/I made the garden." But she also gives more space to dramatizing her playful activities.

She lived a pastoral life, quietly performing her household chores and then immersing herself in nature, from "[r]ambl[ing] over the fields" to collecting shells from the banks of "Spoon River" to picking flowers and "medicinal weed."

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Edgar Lee Masters' 'Lucinda Matlock'

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Scaring birds to flight could be a downright unpleasant experience as well. And any number of hazards could "spring/To rural peace from our meek onward trend." So to eliminate such unhandy events, they will eliminate sense-awareness in favor of superior mental awareness.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: September Poet - William Carlos Williams

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The speaker dramatizes a further request of the listener: if the listener happens to read his verse, the speaker demands that the person not say the speaker's name, but "let your love even with my life decay."

The speaker wants the listener to shed all emotion and thought of the speaker so that listener will not be burdened by sorrow at the death of the speaker, and repeating his name would make forgetting even more difficult.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 71

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Describing the Ineffable in terms of the physical plane of being must be done metaphorically, that is, using the terms of the earthly plane. The speaker, therefore, describes his experience in terms of light calling it the great "Lightland." The higher worlds of consciousness are built of light more readily recognized as "light" than the gross thickness of the physical world.

from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Yogananda's 'The Great Lightland'

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