Bearded Oaks Questions

Bring on the tough stuff - there’s not just one right answer.

  1. Why does Warren use an irregular rhyme scheme? What's the effect on the reader?
  2. Do you believe that history is really undone if there is no hope or fear? How do these two human emotions contribute to history?
  3. What is the speaker's relationship to nature? How can you tell? What do think he wants to convey when he says, "our headlight glare disturbed the doe that, leaping, fled"?
  4. How is love like death? Does this poem provide any useful comparisons?
  5. Why is the lover absorbed in "we" and never given an identity? What effect does that have on your reading of this poem?