Imagery has a major impact in the all poem’s but in the poem, On The Amtrak from Boston to New York. The Speaker states certain lines to make the reader understand what is going on visually through the conflict between the white woman and the speaker. The speaker synthesizes his history and the white woman’s history. In the beginning of the poem the woman isn't generally speaking to him about her history. The speaker infers that the white woman is speaking to him because she is “across the aisle,” from him but in reality she was looking out the “window past me.” Therefore, when the woman is looking out the window she is generally speaking to herself about all the knowledge she knows about her history. The speaker felt attentive to pursue listening
