... reader recognizes an abrupt shift at the beginning of the eleventh stanza with the very melancholy tone. The mood becomes more somber with the rest of the line, creating an image contrary to the one of a skilled and accomplished worker described in the preceding stanzas, "He was poor and most days he was hungry." The single line is a complete sentence making both a very final idea, as well as one not to be expanded on. The author returns to listing objects, not addressing them till the end of the sentence. Because of this syntax, more weight is bestowed on the objects than the eventual commentary delineated about them. The reader is presented with the image of "Imported cabinets with mirrors, formica table tops, spine curving chairs made up of tubes," and "thin beds, stretched not on boards, but blue high-tension cables," before being told that these "were what ...

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