Three or so

This is an analysis of the poem " Three or so "

Step 2: About a dozen things that come to my mind:

1) About three things or more

2) Numericals

3) Family of Three

4)Three things in a picture

5) Back Alley

Step 4: List of things that force their attention on me:

1) Is the child in the snapshot me?

2) The soul of her fled long ago.

3) Through the door in that tiny yard

Step 5: Assonance:

Woollen Dress, Broken Door, Tiny Yard, Sun, Photograph, Motorbikes, Scrawny cats

Step 6: The group of words:

1) Rough men on motorbikes, not to be looked at.

2) Scrawny Cats scratching, not to be touched

3) The real soul of her fled long ago

Step 7: There is no pattern taking shape.

Step 8: It is the author's memory of his/her childhood through snapshots.

Step 9:

a) The poet

b) It is the poet himself/herself

c) The poet was sincere as he was recalling his childhood memories

d) The poet is also the speaker

e) The poet first describes herself, before describing herself and then what she had heard

f) I get to understand the poem better

Step 10: She hoped that she could express her feelings and thoughts as a child.