What are the motifs in Hum by Ann Lauterbach?

Lamentation is a recurring idea in thise poems. A lamentation is a song or poem expressing sorrow over a loss, particularly the death of a loved one. Although Lauterbach does not directly address the loss of any one person, her choice of words and the concatenation of images lend to the eulogizing effects of the poem. The narrator mentions that she weeps and that “everyone will weep.” She weeps, in particular, for the incidental, which, as defined in the poem, includes “things,” “everyone,” and “the towers.”