After Dinner by Philip Levine

In this poem, Levine talks about dinner where everything was going peaceful. After cleaning up after dinner, the lady reads a book and begins to fall asleep. Rather than going to bed, she goes out to the porch on the front of her house. The lady walks out to the lawn and finds her shadow with the silence of the house behin her. When she is out in the middle of the lawn, her shadow and her are there together.

In this poem, we see a theme throughout the poem. We see a theme of loneliness. The lady talks to her television set while she is eating dinner. She goes out to the lawn when it is very dark to find someone. She is tring to find herself or someone to talk to so that she is no longer lonely. The lady taught me that if one loses valuables, you should never give up to find it. "She could keep going into whatever the darkness brings, she could find her presence there." This quote states, that as she walks deeper into onto the lawn, the more you can find of yourself.

This innocent lady who's lonely, and tries to find your ability to be with someone. She walks towards the night, she knows everything until something happens. She is being removed and is lonely. She is walking away from her house to go into the distance and find someone. This reminds me of Peter Pan when he looses his shadow and he goes to find it in the house. He tries to find what he is missing, this is like the lady is doing in the poem, she is in search for a person or searching for someone to cure her loneliness.