"Digging" (2819)

Read aloud.

What is the conflict that the speaker is going through? What does he remember?

What is "dug up" in this poem?

How can a writer (or poet) dig? What is implied in such work?

"Punishment" (2821)

Cf. footnote.

Look at lines 1-12. How can the speaker "feel" and "see" her?

Read lines 23-27. What would make him think she was beautiful?

Look at the last four stanzas. How does the speaker connect her to the "betraying sisters"? With himself?