Faithful and Virtuous Night Lesson Plan

Where in today's reading is there a blurring of the boundaries between what is real and what is imagined? Specifically, how do physical landscapes reflect or otherwise interact with internal landscapes? What other themes are present alongside this exploration of the threshold of lived versus perceived reality?

Students may single out "A Sharply Worded Silence," "Visitors From Abroad," and "Aboriginal Landscape" for this question, noting the author's use of ambiguity, dreamlike encounters, and shifting scenery in these poems in particular. They may identify symbols and themes which occur here as well as in other places in the collection, including night, snow, wind,...