Post Seven: Chapter Eight

*Considering this chapter actually addresses higher-level questions, I will ask two questions that pertain to my field: English.

Read the following poem by John Ashbery, "Some Trees," and then answer the following two questions.

"Some Trees"

These are amazing: each
Joining a neighbor, as though speech
Were a still performance.
Arranging by chance

To meet as far this morning
From the world as agreeing
With it, you and I
Are suddenly what the trees try

To tell us we are:
That their merely being there
Means something; that soon
We may touch, love, explain.

And glad not to have invented
Such comeliness, we are surrounded:
A silence already filled with noises,
A canvas on which emerges

A chorus of smiles, a winter morning.
Placed in a puzzling light, and moving,
Our days put on such reticence
These accents seem their own defense.
<http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/some-trees.html>.

1.  Identify one metaphor from the poem.

2.  Explain the metaphor that you chose for question one; then, create your own and explain the meaning            behind it.