Write a brief essay discussing the use of imagery in both "Grandma Ling" and "your little
voice." Examine the ways in which each poem uses images to convey the emotions or attitudes
of its speaker. Use the reading selection to help you answer the question.

"Your Little Voice" uses imagery in the lines "over time//and tide and death//leaping", conveying the sadness of the death through comparing the voice to the movement of wind and waves. "Grandma Ling" uses imagery in the lines: "to take to heart the eldest daughter//of her youngest son a quarter century away", by comparing the distance in time and geography as well as in cultural differences, to express the emotional distance between families far apart.

it creates a visual picture of the man.

it conveys what the scene sounds like.

it describes the actions of the boy.

it reveals the poet’s opinion of the characters.

it encourages readers to care for the characters.

the anwser is went creeping down the river again, across the wide lonely marshes to the sea.

i longed to go with them out into the world to seek my fortune in foreign lands—africa, india, china and peru!

and, dreaming of the lands i had never seen, i'd sit on there, watching till they were out of sight.