Draft
The Story We Know by Martha Collins is a poem that exemplifies the constant and reoccuring patterns we are all exposed to in life; the dullness of work, the exhilarating adventures, but even more importantly, Collins knows of the familiar arrays in which we live and of our eventual endings to our stories. The Story We Know starts the poem off with the understanding that we: a collective audience , are aware of this story of life that she describes is lived similarly to her and in the first stanza she writes, “ The way to begin is always the same,” which suggests that our beginnings are the same just as our endings will be, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have the oppurtunity to change as is led to in stanza 5 where it says,“ But one night
The Story We Know by Martha Collins is a poem that exemplifies the constant and reoccuring patterns we are all exposed to in life; the dullness of work, the exhilarating adventures, but even more importantly, Collins knows of the familiar arrays in which we live and of our eventual endings to our stories. The Story We Know starts the poem off with the understanding that we: a collective audience , are aware of this story of life that she describes is lived similarly to her and in the first stanza she writes, “ The way to begin is always the same,” which suggests that our beginnings are the same just as our endings will be, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have the oppurtunity to change as is led to in stanza 5 where it says,“ But one night