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Original poem reprinted online here: "Pencil" by Marianne Boruch  Originally read: April 10, 2013 More information about the Poet: Marianne Boruch "Look, think, make a mark ," is the core idea in the poem.  Even though the quote refers to the drawing teacher, look how those words affected the speaker.  Now, the poem could go into a nostalgic trip where the speaker looks, thinks, and makes a mark.  The poem does indeed do this but at the end, but the rest of stanza focuses on the idea of "look," "think" and "make a mark" In stanza two, the focus is on the visual.  The imagery shifts from "white" clouds "darken" with rain, and the ability to blur an image into something entirely different "little woolies on the hillside."  At this point, there's a sense of the "cute" in here.  But the "thought" comes in  from an outsider perspective, "Look, my teacher / would surely tell me, they...