Independent Reading Post
Dimension: Analysis
Text: "Hidden" by Naomi Shihab Nye
This poem is used to convey the theme that destruction of everything, when given enough time, is inevitable. This is the one, primary theme in this poem. One example of how this theme is used to determine the decisions the author makes about plot is how after the narrator has placed a fern under a rock and come back the next day to find that it has decomposed. The reason the author chose to make this happen is the fact that the rock is used to symbolize time. The fern is used as an example of how everything is destroyed in time, which supports the theme.
Another example of the plot supporting the theme is how when the poet describes the name of a loved one disappearing under your tongue when unspoken. This is another example that supports the theme because the memory of that person is destroyed after all who knew them are gone, another example of the great destroying powers of time.
The author uses these decisions about plot to support the theme by showing the audience the theme and letting the reader infer it.
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