How many dawn's are left in you?

The speaker of this poem eloquently ties together the themes of life, death, and the beauty of nature all in one piece. I read that it used to be separate pieces of text, pictures, and sound, but it is now integrated into a single Flash loop. If the significant sections of this work were disconnected, I don't believe that it would have the same effect.

The slowly changing pictures in the background give the reader a sense of wonder at the environment all around them. Sound also plays a strong part in transporting the reader to the desired location shown to them in the flowing scenes on the screen. Throughout the poem the sound of a fire crackling reinforces the idea that the reader/viewer is out in the wilderness alone and being told a part of a person's life, the poem's speaker. It is also possible to discern the wind swiftly threading its way between trees or over a field.

Then there are the almost fleeting words of the poem itself. At times the words seem difficult to read, just like the subject that they pertain to. This fact can lead one to infer that the words are coming into the speaker's mind slowly and disappearing almost as soon as they are voiced.

One of the most often seen pictures in the poem's background is of a field in which there is a single tree and a chain link fence running diagonally across the image. There are wild flowers on one side and an open field on the other as two trees tower over the fence. It is difficult to tell on which side the trees are, but if one were to fall it can be sure that there would be no more fence! Perhaps this picture truly emphasizes the quote above; the wild environments shown in the clip are slowly vanishing from the world.

It's also of importance that this work plays in an endless loop. The words are made to seem timeless in this way, along with the images that they accompany. Maybe not everyone can travel to a place like those depicted in the poem, but by reading and studying this poem, they can be anywhere.