Trying To Name What Doesn T Change Analysis

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"Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" by Naomi Shiha Nye, is a poem about what does not change versus what does change. Nye shows perspective from a child and adult point of view about how they view change. "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" is a poem about time and how it takes time for change to be noticeable. Nye wants the reader to thinks about what changes in their life and what does not change. The imagery in Naomi Shiha Nye's poem "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" shows that the only thing in life that is constant is change. Stanza 1 gives a detail of an image from a child perspective who has watched the same train track for 3 years, and it reflects how change is the only thing in life that is constant and how it takes time for people to notice change. "Roselva says the only thing that doesn't change / is train tracks. She's sure of it" (1-2). Roselva believes the only thing that doesn't change is the train tracks and she believes that with all her heart and soul. Roselva believes that even though the train tracks stay the same, there is still a piece of the track that changes, which is the train and weeds that grows around the track. "I've watched one for three years, she says, / and it doesn't curve, doesn't break, doesn't grow" (5-6). Nye shows that Roselva thinks that if …show more content…
In stanza 3, at one point of time the widow was married and as time went by she is now alone because her husband is deceased. "The widow in the tilted house / spice her soup with cinnamon" (13-14). The widow life changed when she became a wife and change when her husband passed away. This image show as time is not constant but time brings change as time goes by. In stanza 4, Nye describes how stars die including roses and cats. This image tells us that things will eventually die off. This shows us that people, time, relationships, and situations may change, but the only thing constant is

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