Explicating poem - Elegy for a Forest Clear

Poetry Assessment
In the text of his poem "Elegy for a Forest Clear - Cut by the Weyerhaeuser Company", David Wagoner develops an emotional response in the reader. This is developed with figurative language and a connotative theme. The poem gets the reader to feel sorry for the fallen forest.
The few lines of the poem generate a powerful visual image as the denotation and connotation of the wording is analyzed. The text utilized much verbiage that was unfamiliar to this reader. In the first few sentences there are many words that have older denotation. For example, the definition of the w…