![]() Because of the word "things" in line 7, the leaves become analogous to human feelings that are evoked in the following lines by "beauty" and "griefs," because "fallen things" could refer either to the fallen leaves or to feelings in one's past. Several words are so deftly used that the sensory objects in the image become analogous to human experiences, so the image can be associated with one's subjectivity, and the reader is able to apprehend the mind of the speaker. However, this analysis delineates merely the imagistic part of the text. During the night, the leaves drifted and turned on the water until they were cleansed and the red hue was recovered. The title "The Clock" highlights the passing of time while "all night" indicates the duration. They might have been sullied by dirt before they were blown to the pond. It must be autumn, for their hue was red. On the surface, the poem focuses on the image of a few fallen leaves drifting on a small pond. Take her short poem "The Clock" as an example: Night pond, Furthermore, her poems move beyond this early Modernist concern for imagery, for they are pregnant with spiritual awareness and insight into the human psyche. However, her imagery is tactfully linked to the control and the activity of the mind. Like many American poets since the rise of Imagism in the 1910s, Jane Hirshfield (*1953) writes verse with concrete, vivid imagery.
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