What I did this time when reading this poem. I made sure to not keep looking at the image next to the poem, just to make sure that I don't focus to much on finding the similar things from the picture to the poem.
This poem was interesting. It was not a list poem, and it did not rhyme, it told this story of this empty house that seems to bring fear to both people and nature. It is like Edward Hirsh (the writer of this poem) was talking about some characteristic of this house, and making it sound like a real haunted house. In making this house seem haunted, Hirsh did not have to add any ghost or make it sound like a Halloween story of a haunted house. What I like about this poem was when it went into detail about the house, how no one has lived in it, and no trees or shrubs grow around it. Everything is in distance of this house, and to me that makes it the house seem haunted or that there is more to this house than meets the eye. And anyone that enters in the house will never be seen again.
The picture of the house, does look spooky, with its heavy dark shadow on the front side of the house and when you look at the windows, the ones that are open show nothing but black darkness inside. There is no clouds, trees, or grass, just the railroad. I wonder why Hirsh would have in the title and in the picture a railroad, I don't remember anything in the poem that talks enough about the railroad. Like why is this house placed near there? I would like to have more info about the railroad in this poem, but other than that, I enjoyed this poem.
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