Jane writes to give the simple things in her life significance. When she describes her breakfast she says, “I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach.” These are all things that a common person would eat for their most important meal. Yet, they are each given a special niche in her life. In doing this, Kenyon is able to bring the poem to life; focusing on how lucky she is to have the things that she does. She does not use language that over-complicates her blessings, or undermines them. She simply states them as they are. …show more content…
They way she writes the poem, as well as the way it is formatted (written in only two short stanzas), further exhibits the idea that life is short and fleeting. She emphasizes on the fact that all that is young will not stay as it once was. The good things in her life; health, sustenance, nature, work, love, companionship, comfort, and rest will not last forever. Although, for now, she appreciates the fact that they are her’s in the