What can readers learn from analyzing imagery in this
stanza?
O the thoughts and feelings of the speaker
* the thoughts and feelings of the poet
W
In Chicago, it is snowing softly
and a man has just done his wash for the week.
He steps into the twilight of early evening,
carrying a wrinkled shopping bag
full of neatly folded clothes,
and, for a moment, enjoys
the feel of warm laundry and crinkled paper,
flannellike against his gloveless hands.
-"The Legend,"
Garrett Hongo
O what it is like to be in the poet's shoes
O what the speaker is seeing, hearing, and feeling
