A Blessing

The poem "A Blessing" by James Wright, talks about the lover of the speaker to two Indian ponies that he saw off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota. The ponies welcomed both the speaker and his / her friend by coming out of the willows and played with them. The speaker described them as they love each other a lot. And one of them, the black and white one, seemed to really like the speaker. Some of the examples of imagery that are used in the poem are "they bow shyly as wet swans". This description shows the way of the ponies bowing and how they love each other. The part that says "She is black and white", this is a very direct description of imagery, directly saying the physical appearance of the pony. Also, "Her mane falls wild on her forehead", shows even more details of the ponies other than simply how she is black and white. The sentences of "And the light breeze moves me to cress her long ear", makes the readers know that there's light wind and the feeling of the pony's ears is soft like the skin of a girl's wrist.