Everything Ends

My favorite poem from this year in AP English was "Sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop. I liked this poem simply because of the style of the Sestina where it repeats the same ending words in each stanza, and because when I was reading it "something suddenly click[ed]" (55). This of course was significant to me because prior to this poem, every time I sat down to write the essay it made "me want to cry" (54). With "Sestina" I finally moved past my strong hate of poems and felt far less miserable while writing my essays. For some reason as I read about that crying grandmother who seems so depressed, and thought about what could possibly be her reasoning behind her depression, I realized that "everything ends, and everything matters" (292). Even those things which seem to have no significance at all, change something when they end.