... to stay out of Roxbury, Shirley Ave. area and Mission Hill. And we obey. These are predominantly minority populations. Our Grandparents and parents have passes their barriers to us. The barrier is invisible, but very strong. In the poem, the wall is a metaphor representing our societies traditional social walls. The neighbor in the poem claims good fences make good neighbors. These ... . In the poem, Parakeets, Canaries and Parrots are depicted as landing jobs and living in luxurious cages. Pigeons are shewed away. The speaker seems to think the color of a pigeon is similar to the color ...

• Word Count: 939
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

... depicting the scene. The starting point for the speaker's thought is what he perceives as a coincidence; a white spider sits on a white flower holding up a white moth. In Western culture, the color white typically associates with goodness, purity, and innocence. The language of the poem suggests that these connotative links - the spider is "dimpled" as well as "fat and white,"(Line 1) refers ... . The first possibility is that there is a force of evil at work that has created a "design of darkness to appall."(Line 13) Satan perhaps, orchestrated a scene of destruction in the color of inn...

• Word Count: 1104
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School