Place by W.S. Merwin

This poem is structured within two lines, a total of sixteen lines. This is to make the reader read it and kind of pause from verse to verse, so that they can imagine what he is saying and also to kind of him responding to the first line of each verse. The first verse creates an image of a tree, that the author really cares about them, because even though is the last day of the world, he would still plant a tree. Most of us would rather spend it with our loved ones or do something memorable for the last time. He ends the poem as it is to show that trees by the end of the world, would survive and that no human being would take it down.