Poem Analysis: Carrie Fountain

Not always what we hear or what we think it the right thing to do, which demonstrated that this poem’s structure clearly presented something that we needed to hear and obey like our instincts as one evaluates some life’s situations. Those instincts provide one with a clue for each situation as a future forecast of that experience. After each bad situation come something good if we stop to listen for answers, the poet stated “We could get quiet enough, we’d hear / the universe calling back to us, telling us / what to do next.” (27-28-29) “Carrie Fountain”. Her inspiration in this poem expressed some bad situation in her life she would had liked to skipped if it was possible, and to keep going in life and benefitting from those life’s experiences,