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Analysis of "A Road in the Sky" by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers

Original poem reprinted online here: "A Road in the Sky" by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers Originally read: March 23, 2013 More information about the Poet: Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers I lagged to write an analysis here.  I do have notes on the page, but I feel I'm missing something -- something that google cannot find.  I searched "A Road in the Sky,"  I searched "Ithaca, NY" and I was trying to find a connection, or something that can tell me more about the other in this poem the "we." I harp a lot on ambiguous pronouns and how an unknown "I" or "other" (we, us) can make or break a poem.  But I'm getting ahead of myself.  The poem is structured somewhat like a narrative with a sense of exposition, a sense of character development, a climax -- but an end? The poem is structured in couplets with individual lines.  So there's a sense of forced emphasis on the parts with one line. But first the exposition.  There's a descr...