An Abandoned Farmhouse On A Desolate Country Road Live A Home By Josene Koser Analysis

An abandoned farmhouse on a desolate country road live a man. Personal items left behind describe the man. The man, a big, tall man, wore large shoes and slept in an extra-large bed. He was a godly man, for his Bible seemed to be well used. The man lacked the ability to farm, for the fields were scattered with large rocks making farming difficult. A man lived here, but not a farmer.

A women lived here as well, for the house was decorated with flower wallpaper and decorative cloths adorned the shelves. In the yard remains of scattered toys and a sandbox made from an old tractor tire, gives evidence that a child once lived there. The family was not a rich family. They supplemented their food supply with homemade food items. The winters were

A couple examples the narrator used are; “He was a big man, says the size of his shoes”, “God-fearing man, says the Bible with a broken back”, and “A women lived with him, says the bedroom wall papered with lilacs.” These items do not really talk but they do describe the family. Personification is an effective way for the narrator to introduce the people to the readers without the family being physically present in the poem. Therefore letting the readers infer traits about the family through the items left

No one occupies the farmhouse, therefore the farmhouse is abandoned. This is the main sense of abandonment, but Kooser hints to another sense abandonment. The sense that the farm was abandoned long before the occupants left. The man abandoned his work on as a farmer. Kooser does through the statements like “weed-choked yard” and the “leaky barn”. These images imply that the farmer abandoned his farm by not tending to what the farm needed. This abandonment could have happened because of the failed farm or did the farm fail because the man abandoned the work of the farm. Which brings in the last theme,