Poetry Response #1

Tia Collins

5-1-13

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20036

I chose "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by Christina Rossetti. One of the lines in the poem that I like was  "But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through." I thought this poem was interesting because she's saying, you may not see the wind but you can see the affects it makes when it is there. In this poem, Christina Rossetti used repetition with the line "Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I." She also repeated "The wind is passing." Another line in the poem that I liked was "But when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by." In that line, I can imagine the trees leaning down because of the wind. Even though it is not a very long poem with tons of description, I still enjoyed reading it. I noticed it had rhymes in it, making it have a good flow. It has some imagery, in the line "But when the leaves hang trembling" and "But when the trees bow down their heads" It gives you a picture of how it looks when the wind is blowing.