She uses imagery in a random run-on sentence about an uncle who “flies a single engined plane”, “hitchhikes into town” and “inquires at every door until he finds you asleep midafternoon as you so often are during the unmerciful hours of your despair.”(14-20) And then she continues to listen random things and people that happiness comes to such as, “the lover”, “the dog chewing a sock”, “the pusher”, “the basket maker”, and finally, “the clerk stacking cans of carrots in the night” (25-28) The poet is showing variety, and that is what makes the poem so unique but easy to understand. Kenyon even uses personification when saying that happiness even comes to “the wineglass, weary of holding
She uses imagery in a random run-on sentence about an uncle who “flies a single engined plane”, “hitchhikes into town” and “inquires at every door until he finds you asleep midafternoon as you so often are during the unmerciful hours of your despair.”(14-20) And then she continues to listen random things and people that happiness comes to such as, “the lover”, “the dog chewing a sock”, “the pusher”, “the basket maker”, and finally, “the clerk stacking cans of carrots in the night” (25-28) The poet is showing variety, and that is what makes the poem so unique but easy to understand. Kenyon even uses personification when saying that happiness even comes to “the wineglass, weary of holding