Poetry: Journal 3

Steps:
1.) Read the poem three times.
2.) Write things you notice right off the bat.
        -The tone is very depressing
        -The speaker seems very sad, lonesome, hopeless
        - The speaker writes about how our life and our beings are meaningless, every minute we inch closer
        to death and one day death knocks on our door, and we become nothing.
3.) Read the poem one more time.
4.) Notice any repetitions and/or similes.
        -Time (year, month, day..) is repeated. Fading and death are also repeated.
        -No similes
5.) Define words you do not know.
        -Transitory: not lasting, enduring, permanent or eternal.
        -Implacable: not to be appeased
        -Artillery: firing guns, missile launchers
6.) Make connections between different stanzas.
        -Each stanza speaks about death, time passing and how we are meaningless.