Oh No

Robert Creeley creates a fantastic image with this poem. It's only two stanzas long with an abab rhyme scheme in the first stanza and an aa bb rhyme scheme in the second stanza. This poem has very simple diction and is an easy read. This simple and straight to the point poem represents the idea of the piece. I see this poem as representing a person arriving in heaven because the poem talks about having a chair available for you only, and thats symbolic of God always having a place for a person in heaven no matter who the person is. This poem represents a person dying and going to heaven and the poem is so straightforward that its kind of like death because death is so straight forward; everybody dies eventually and it's inevitable. Also, the poem starts off with wandering too far and this poem could be talking about how everybody gets off track sometimes and your not alone.