For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.

Kahlil Gibran
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The poem, “The Town,” by John Ashbery, is the story of a man’s grief over his hometown. The image that comes to mind when I listen to this poem is of a mother mourning her dead son. The town and the weather speak for themselves and it is the final lines that speak to us: “I don’t like it here. The air is so hard and cold.

And the river is so flat and gray. I wish I were back in my town again, sitting all by myself under a summer sky.”

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