Poetry Analysis ; The Pool (by Hilda Doolittle)

The Pool   
by Hilda Doolittle

Are you alive? ~~Auditory Imagery
I touch you. ~~Tactile Imagery
You quiver like a sea-fish. ~~Visual Imagery
I cover you with my net. ~~kinesthetic imagery
What are you - banded one? ~~Auditory Imagery

The Analysis of the poem and paraphrase

It is human interaction between the speaker and the person who the speaker is asking a question and intends to give a help. The person (ref to: You quiver like a sea-fish) reflects someone that is in trouble or dying (sick or lost of spirit). The speaker tries to offer a help to the person mentioned and asking what exactly her or his trouble is?

Poetry Analysis ; I Stop Writing the Poem (by: Tess Gallagher)

I Stop Writing the Poem
by Tess Gallagher  
  
to fold the clothes. No matter who lives ~~kinesthetic imagery
or who dies, I'm still a woman. ~~Auditory Imagery
I'll always have plenty to do.
I bring the arms of his shirt ~~ kinesthetic imagery
together. Nothing can stop
our tenderness. I'll get back
to the poem. I'll get back to being
a woman. But for now
there's a shirt, a giant shirt ~~Visual imagery
in my hands, and somewhere a small girl  ~~Visual imagery
standing next to her mother ~~ kinesthetic imagery
watching to see how it's done. ~~Visual imagery


The Analysis of the poem and paraphrase


to fold the clothes. No matter who lives
or who dies, I'm still a woman.
I'll always have plenty to do.

As a woman (ref to: "I'm still a woman") She folds the clothes that the women usually do as a wife. The writer tries to show the reader that the person in the story is a woman that sad because her husband’s death. She has plenty of time to do the housework including laundry.