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She juxtaposes natural words to exhibit political intention in this piece. As there are words like revolutionary and sell, so I think it may also related to war,. These make impact to the nature and human. Well, she repeats a couple or more words twice like I explained before. For me, these intensified the truth that her real meaning was under the surface of the text. Moreover, the euphonic rhythm make such a harmonious effect to the feeling of the audience.

Rich uses visual imagery most of the whole poem as he tries to depict what he sees and feels about the place. We can see in words such as revolutionary road, shadows, meeting house, trees, the grass, and so on. Shadows represents the change for bad things, getting lost of immorality. Revolutionary road stands for the American Revolution and how we were changing for the better condition. Woods are symbol of feeling lost, and trees represent ignorance and innocence.

Why is so? Because at the end of the poem Rich uses trees to reveal an irony that we only care to trees instead of the real issues. Besides using visual imagery, she uses tactile imagery shown in picking mushrooms at the edge of dread. I think it is about the remaining thing or condition she knows about the place. The obstacles to revolution include the atrocities referred to by Brecht.

The " disappearance " of South American leftists during the s and s may only hover in the shadows of Rich's first stanza, but the idea of someone "being disappeared" by the authorities appears explicitly at the end of her second stanza:. I've walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don't be fooled.

The reference to a "Russian poem" comes quite unexpectedly; is it the "mushrooms" or "the edge of dread" that is supposed to make it necessary to insist that we "not be fooled"? Along with her use of Brecht's poem for her title, Rich's note to the poem includes another reference: the juxtaposition of "truth" and "dread" echoes the conclusion of W. So this is not Russia, where Mandelstam was "disappeared"; nor is it a South American military dictatorship whose actions led to the coining of the transitive sense of "disappear" usually in the passive voice as "Jorge was disappeared last week".

For some American readers, all the words describing this "place between two stands of trees" might well have pointed to such an "elsewhere," a country whose distance from the reader's own makes it easy to condemn. But this is "not somewhere else but here"; this is "our country," which we readers cannot distance ourselves from. Still, the poem does not name the country in question. The author's name and biography tell us to think of it as the United States, and that specificity is very important to her work.

At the same time, the lack of specificity is important to the poem itself, because it does not allow non-American readers to distance themselves from their own countries' atrocities, their own societies' "ways of making people disappear. In the third stanza, Rich makes her lack of specificity explicit by refusing to identify the place in question:. I won't tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods. I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.

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