Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota BY JAMES WRIGHT

I think that the last line of the poem extended our knowledge and interpretations, rather than bringing the poem together. The last line was surprising, although once I read it, I was able to notice other small details in the poem that supported the conclusion. For example, in the first line of the poem, “Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,” I noticed that the pronoun used was “the,” instead of “a,” which suggests that that the poet was more used to the setting than we originally thought, and that his observations were not necessarily random and that the last line proved that he had in fact “wasted [his] life.”