The Meadow by Kate Knapp Johnson

In the Meadow, Kate Knapp Johnson uses imagery syntax, and diction with the use of a lost and calm tone to show how the passage of time affects a person especially when the person is waiting on someone that is important to them. She stares out the window searching for “one true thing about the soul” but she lost track and started “thinking for thought” meaning that she lost track of what she was thinking. The poems stanzas split off before it finishes sentence making it more difficult to read fluidly. This might show how time is going by faster how her thoughts are racing. After a while she realizes that “two inches of snow have fallen” she starts to talk about how she wants her lover to come back. Waiting for a loved one to return can make a person sit with only his/her thoughts to pass the time but when the person returns to the real world he/she begins to become sad again. These techniques that are used in the poem convey this message very well.