1. What object symbolizes George Gray’s life? How is this object representative of him?
The object that symbolizes George Gray’s life is a boat. It is longing for the sea, yet is afraid of what might happen to it. He was afraid of life but he also wanted to live it. This boat “pictures his life.” Gray was offered many things, but he decided to stay away from them in fear of getting hurt. He never loved or felt sorry or ambitious.
2. How was Lucinda Matlock’s life different than George Gray’s? How do you interpret the last line of the poem?
Lucinda Matlock’s life was different than George Gray’s life because she did a lot more things. She went to dances, played snap-out, got married and lived together for seventy years, worked, raised twelve children, spun, wove, kept the house, nursed the sick, made the garden, gathered shells, flowers, and medicinal weed, shouted to the wooded hills, and sang to the green valleys. She did so much in her life that, when she died at the age of ninety-six, she had lived enough. She does not understand why people are so upset, sorrowful, angry, and weary, because life is such a special thing.
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