Lee Herrick show in his poem “The impossible replication of desire” that, what you think you desire can be different from what you want when you get it. He shows this through short brief stanzas, imagery and symbolism. Each stanza in this poem is only 3 lines long which makes the message brief and a little confusing due to the fact there he doesn’t say anything that is very straight-forward in this poem of his. In stanza 3 Lee Herrick shows through symbolism that our ideas of what is desired change very quick even, without notice like the change to autumn “Think how fast some landscapes change…the failing maple.”. In stanza 4 he shows, through imagery, “the boat about to capsize, the correction, the hand’s