Rosemary Avenue

Will Gerhardt

Dr.McClure

English 112

Essay 1

"Rosemary Avenue"

In the poem "Rosemary Avenue" The poem tells a story of a young girl when visits her old street and sees an old friend. In the poem the poet is speaking directly to us the reader. The attitude of the little girl is very sympathetic towards the tree that her grew up with. The author this poem sets a tone of passion and love through her descriptions.

When I look at the line structure of this poem I can tell the poet was using a style of writing that help descried her feelings in an intimate way. The style of writing in this poem is set up in a certain form call a Sonnet; this allows the reader to experience a more personal perspective of the poem. The poem develops slowly, she spends the first seven lines describing and talking about her tree. The images and thoughts develop chronologically thought the poem. There is a movement of one attitude of happiness to an attitude of anger and sadness.

This poem starts out by describing the tree to the reader. She says, "First to tag the cold air, the first to trespass chain-link," this quote tells me that the tree is big and has out grown its environment. The tree is the main focus of the poem, that's why she starts out by describing it. Then she walks down her old street and beings to remember when she was younger. She speaks of her "tall ex-boyfriend" who was thin as a top hat. She ends this thought with saying "that was years ago. This tells me that she no longer lives there, but wishes things were like they used to be. There is a great feeling of sadness in this thought. The next two lines separate the attitude of the girl, she in a sense "changes gears." She hints on what happened to her neighborhood when she says "that was years ago, before this house and dreams that troll up old sediment." This explains what happens to her house. The house was knocked over and