When trying to understand a poem, the best place to start is with the question, "What did you notice?" Don't worry about what anything means, just focus on the words on the page. You might notice these two lines rhyme" or "I noticed the
crow, it seemed important to me."
After you read "Dust of Snow," make notes about at least three things you noticed. Then, with an instructor or fellow
student, have a quick discussion about the poem. Share what you noticed. Write down what other people noticed. Did
you notice the same things? What do you feel about the parts that other people have pointed out?
Your response should be at least 150 words in length

When i was young enough to still spend a long time buttoning my shoes in the morning, i'd listen toward the hall: daddy upstairs was shaving, in the bathroom, and mother downstairs was frying the bacon. they would begin whispering back and forth to each other up and down the stairwell. my father would whistle his phrase, my mother would try to whistle, then hum hers backi drew my buttonhook in and out and listened to it -know it was "the merry widow." the difference was, their song almost floated with laughter. how different from the record, which growled from the beginning, as if the victrola were only slowly being wound up. they kept it running between them, up and down the stairs where i was now just about ready to run clattering down and show them my shoes. what is the effect of the parallelism used in the above excerpt? it establishes the rhythm of a duet to echo the song. it expresses the same ideas. it mirrors opposite ideas. it is a paradox.

The empire state building was a.constructed by one hundred workers. b.was first lit up by president roosevelt. c.has more than one hundred stories. d took several years to complete.

What is your interpretation of “the story of my experiments with turth”?