We may need to read "against the grain-; we many have to listen between the lines. ... (Lines 5-6) His horse thinks that is (gay or odd) that they are not stopping near a farmhouse. ... (Lines 9-10) He r! ings the front door to see if he is at the right houses. ... (Lines 15-16) The speaker has mile to go before he can get some sleep. ...
This poem has four groups of four lines, for a total of sixteen. ... "The Elk" is longer, two paragraphs the first with 16 lines, the second with 26, however the longer poems seems to require less contemplating. ... The poachers were so close that if they had gone out the front they would have been spotted. ...
While to the outside world, people put up a front that everything is okay and wonderful: that we are open-minded and perfectly normal in our thoughts and actions, inside an entirely different story is taking place. ... This leads into the next two lines of the stanza. ... However, the following lines suggest otherwise. ...
