https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i Made with LIT Love en-us 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC 2025-11-19 20:11:44 UTC hello@padlet.com thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798393 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798393 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798395 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798395 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798396 1. The title “Next Time” suggests the disappointed and regretful tone of the poem. ]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798396 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798397 2. The speaker is contemplating her actions and dealings with others.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798397 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798399 3. As seen in the first lines, “Next time what I’d do is look at the earth before saying anything,” it is clear the speaker may have said something she now regrets.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798399 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798401 4. This idea of regret is also seen in the repeated use of “I’d;”using “would” in its past conditional sense create a melancholy mood by focusing attention on irreparable past mistakes. ]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798401 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798403 5. The idea of being “an emperor” represents the speaker’s desire to wisely control her thoughts and actions.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798403 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798406 6. The “wind or the air being still” symbolizes the speaker’s desire to listen better.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798406 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798408 7. This idea of listening is repeated throughout the poem to highlight the common flaw that many people have in not paying attention to their word.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798408 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798410 8. The speaker plans on “[watching] the face” so as to take better cues from people.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798410 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798414 9. Because of her consistent use of enjambment, we see the perpetual nature of the speaker to ramble on and talk too much.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798414 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798417 10. The speaker wishes she could be a better observer.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798417 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798418 11.  She would “know more” if she looks to the world around her for guidance. ]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798418 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798419 12. Natural imagery related to forests is used in the final stanza.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798419 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798420 13. The earth is personified to show the important connection it has with human life.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798420 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798422 14. By watching others more, the speaker feels she could better see their inner light.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798422 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798423 15. This desire to seek the “body glowing inside the clothes” suggests that the speaker feels she has missed out on learning from those around her; by being more observant she can discover the inner beauty of others, which, in turn, might make her a more enlightened person.]]> 2021-05-07 01:58:46 UTC https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798423 thompsona75 https://padlet.com/thompsona75/xukz75tiu3rd5q5i/wish/1500798424 Next time what I’d do is look at
the earth before saying anything. I’d stop
just before going into a house
and be an emperor for a minute
and listen better to the wind
or to the air being still.

When anyone talked to me, whether
blame or praise or just passing time,
I’d watch the face, how the mouth
has to work, and see any strain, any
sign of what lifted the voice.

And for all, I’d know more -- the earth
bracing itself and soaring, the air
finding every leaf and feather over
forest and water, and for every person
the body glowing inside the clothes
like a light. 

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