The Stone Girl at Sanchi by Gary Snyder, Poetry Analyses

Power Words: 

 - Black Bowl

    - These two words are a example of imagery to describe using evocative language a night sky. This is a fantastic example because a black bowl is an object you don't often see used in writing or poetry as a symbol of the sky. 

- Lasts Forever

 - This term is referring to the characters allusion of his affection for a Girl who left him, or is out of his reach. We feel this was a large contribution to the poem's main theme. 

-Wobbling Speck 

 -These two words are evocative language that are used as symbolism to explain how are planet earth is compared to other parts of the universe. It is very small, and unimportant planet compared to all the other planets, stars, and comets in the universe that we live in.

-Weathered

 - We believe this is symbolism that represents a forgotten, unwanted feeling, it is a comparison of a unremembered sanctuary to the feeling of not being wanted.

-Hollow

 - Is an evocative word describing the feeling of emptiness, and loneliness, it is a continuation of the thought for the power word, wobbling speck.

Archetypes

 1. Divorced 

 2. He was married for the second time to a american poet named Joanne Kyger, and she divorced him after a trip to India. They were only married for five years.

 3. " two flesh persons changing": we believe that this is a reference to the poets own life, i.e his divorce

Title: 

- " For a Stone Girl at Sanchi"

    - we think that the title is referring to a memory that he had with his ex wife at the Buddhist temple in India o their trip, it is a memory forever frozen in time because she is now gone forever