Unveiling

This poem is just down right simple. The structure of it is just line after line with no stanzas and rhyming. I was able to read straight through this poem and get exactly what the poet was meaning to say. It definitely is vivid because it paints a picture of the poet's family members lined up in the graveyard just like around the dinner table. I can relate to that feeling of loneliness because after losing a loved one I felt so left behind, almost like being kept out of a secret as the poet puts it. When the writer talks about how she is not yet old enough to learn this lesson, I relate that lesson to wisdom. A person must grow old and experience more of life before a person can truly experience being "in their shoes." The appreciation of life can't truly be appreciated till a person lives life and can see life from an old person's point of view. I like how she says that she isn't sad about it and depressed but merely left out. I mean isn't that truly how we feel? Death is inevitable and happens to everyone eventually in due time. This poem kind of puts a silver lining on death in a way that I hadn't looked at before.