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Lines 1-3
Lines 1 through 3 of Originally establish the personas in the poem, identified by the phrases our mother and our father's. The first word, We, must refer to a family. These lines also establish the setting of the work and suggest a personal attachment to a place: our own country. The setting, or place, however, is not stationary; rather, the red room, most likely a reference to the vehicle in which the family is traveling, appears to rush along, falling through the fields that go by in a blur. The phrase turn of the wheels further clarifies that the speaker and her family are in a car, but the words that precede it are a bit misleading in the tone they convey: . . . our mother singing / our father's name to the turn of the wheels suggests a merrily traveling family, riding lightheartedly down the road. The rest of the...
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