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Profile of Speaker:
- explores the wilderness
- independent
- doesn't like to spend time with other people
- likes to have own thoughts
(I'm not sure if I did this correctly)

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"Dead leaves, dead leaves, dead leaves
and brown
over which the black squirrel
frolics with his perfect living spring!"

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I believe the intended audience for this poem can be for anyone. I think Souster is trying to tell us to cherish the moments you had as a child and to choose the right path to follow when you're making decisions because you don't want to end up someplace you don't want. The lines "a child... of course that's what he wants more than anything else" shows that the man in the poem misses being a child when things were better and easier for him. This means that the poem could be directed to high schoolers to cherish the small moments in their childhood and school experience before becoming an adult. The poem can also just be for anyone to read, so we learn to have fun when we are still young and make wise choices.

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One powerful line in this poem is "death on their hands, murder singing in their hearts." I think this line is powerful because it creates a clear image describing the hunting of deers and how the hunters feel about hunting deers. The phrase "death on their hands" shows that the hunters are taking away life and will need to always remember that it was them that killed (carry the guilt?). The careful word choice of "singing" shows that the hunters actually enjoy hunting deer even though it means they are murdering deer.

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I think this title is significant because it describes the creature that is portrayed in the poem. The word raider describes something that attacks/scavenges for something. The word night shows that this creature only appears during the dark. This could mean that this creature is scary and aggressive because of the word choice used in the title of the poem. Before reading the poem, I would already have a clear image of a scary creature that is going to be described in the poem. After reading the poem, I think that the title fits well with the creature (most likely a raccoon?) described in the poem because of how the animal rattles the garbage cans and rips the newspaper, which connects to the title of how the animal is the night raider.

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Raymond Souster was a Canadian poet who lived in Toronto. His poems highlight the "details of daily city life." (I found this information on the Poetry Foundation website). I chose to explore Souster's poems because I wanted to choose a Canadian poet and since I don't really know any poets I looked through different poets on the Poetry Foundation website. I think Souster's poems have interesting titles and it'll be interesting to read about poems about urban life.

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Canadian poet and editor Raymond Holmes Souster was educated at the University of Toronto and Humberside Collegiate and served four years in the Royal Canadian Air Force. A lifelong resident of Toronto, he worked as a banker for nearly 50 years.

Souster's free verse poems capture the details of daily city life. He was the author of more than 50 volumes of poetry, including The Colour of the Times: Collected Poems (1964), which won the Governor General's Award; Hanging In (1979), which won the City of Toronto Book Award; and Take Me Out to the Ballgame (2002). His Collected Poems was published in ten volumes between 1980 and 2004. He also published under the pen names Raymond Holmes and John Holmes.

A strong supporter of independent presses and experimental poetry, Souster was the founding editor for the literary journals Direction (1941-46), Contact (1952-54), and Combustion (1957-60) and the founding president of the League of Canadian Poets. His Contact Press first published, among others, Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje. Souster also edited the anthologies Poets 56: ten younger English-Canadians (1956) and New Wave Canada: The New Explosion in Canadian Poetry (1966).

His honors include the Centennial Medal, the Silver Jubilee Medal, and the President's Medal at the University of Toronto, and he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. Souster died of cancer at the age of 91.

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Canadian poet and editor Raymond Holmes Souster was educated at the University of Toronto and Humberside Collegiate and served four years in the Royal Canadian Air Force. A lifelong resident of Toronto, he worked as a banker for nearly 50 years. Souster's free verse poems capture the details of...

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I chose this image because...
The beginning of the poem is dark and sad which is represented in the photo because of the darkness of the cave. When I think about dead leaves, they cover the ground entirely and it gives off a gloomy feeling whenever I see them. The darkness takes up most of the space in this photo, which reminds me of the fall leaves everywhere. At the end of the poem, the tone is more happy and excited which is represented by the light in the photo shining through the darkness. The light shows the beginning of something exciting is going to happen soon, which is similar to the transition between fall/winter to spring (when everyone is anticipating for the nice weather).