1. At the beginning of the poem I would describe the poets moods as positive, peaceful, and optimistic. There is a change in the poem when he describes the leaves in the gutter and how if he told the girl at he IGA what he thought about how she looked it would just be creeps and the mood then turns sound more fake and sarcastic.
2. The details in he similes “everything in beautiful today, like the leaves in the gutter, salt stains in shoes” are more interesting because in most of these examples like leaves in a gutter, salt stains, and a storm, many people would view these things as unpleasant and something that we wouldn’t view as beautiful. This is also the time when he time changes because he starts to sound more sarcastic and he doesn’t really view these things as being beautiful.
3. The poet uses these similes to compare something that many people wouldn’t find very appealing and then compares it to something that is beautiful. The poet also uses the word beautiful in most of his similes and with the amount of times that he uses the word it gives it a false sense and make sound more sarcastic the more he uses it. He uses similes to elaborate on all that he says to give the reader a better understanding of what he is talking about, he has elaborated to much that it is at a point where is sounds fake now.
4. At the beginning of the poem the poet is describing the sky as he walked out of his front door. In this moment I think he was feeling very peaceful and rejuvenated. As he’s walking down the street he is describing the leaves in the gutter and the salt stains on shoes as beautiful. When he is describing these things as beautiful the tone starts to change because he starts to sound a little more sarcastic because what he is describing isn’t really beautiful. After the grocery store he is outside and is describing he beautiful storm that he can see coming. The poet is using alliteration and his mood while writing this could be describes as smug. He has used the world beautiful so many times that it now doesn’t sound like he means is, instead he is sounding sarcastic. On his journey from the IGA he is watching the people around him and he describes them as looking lovely but saying unpleasant things. This gave the mood that he is mocking them. He views that the world we live in is beautiful on the inside and out, we may look beautiful but on the inside we really aren’t. We don’t appreciate everything the world has to offer so we stick out. He poets main point is that people are fake