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Read the poem Following the Silence; what is the central thing the speaker says we must do to achieve even glimpses of understanding? __________________ 2) *Why do you think the poet puts so much faith in crickets / and frogs and birds, and such small creatures of the forest in coming to some understanding about lifes meaning? Explain. 3) What does the poet mean in the poem Seeing Is Believing when he writes: See the rolling acres of pink flowers, / the grey clouds of birds, their hovering? /Begin believing you can. _____________________________________________________________________________ 4) Look at the poem Locust Grove. How specifically does the artist help us on our journey to understanding the world around us? ______________________________________ 5) What is the controlling image in the poem Cat Burglar which describes the way the poet or visual artist enlightens us? ________________ Explain this image. 6) *Harshman believes in the ubiquitousness of our stories. Look at the poem Red Hen and Small Woman. What does the poet saying about finding stories when he writes: I watch a bent woman walk resolutely on / into the racing fog and wonder? 7) Though the fragility of life is keenly felt in the Following the Silence collection, there is little sense of lament or keening. Who exactly is the poet referencing when he writes: Everyone here agrees that, though collagen once ruled, / held things together, and does so no more, / theyre not sad, but happy for the chance to fly? _____________ 8) Following the Silence offers the reader an array of characters to ponder who provide unexpected food for thought. What does the Union Organizer tell us about persistence? 9) Some of the poems in this volume are attempts to comment on life situations. Look at Catherine. What is the topic of this social justice poem? _________________ 10) Like Keats who embraced the material sublime, Marc Harshman is clearly the poet of things in the here and now. 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