EXTRA POINTS 7TH NEED HELP ASAP 1. Interpret ​Reread the last sentence in the poem. What might the speaker mean by “something better”?

2. Analyze ​Reread lines 5-7. What is compared to “a stone/on the riverbed”? Where else does that image appear in the poem?

3. Analyze and Evaluate​ Identify examples of each of the elements of a lyric poem that appear in “Sleeping in the Forest.” Do you think Oliver’s poem is a good example of a lyric poem? Why or why not?

SLEEPING IN THE FOREST
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the riverbed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.