Little Apocalypse

In this poem, I noticed there wasn't a particular rhyme scheme, it used a lot of personification which made it sound elegant and flowing. The personification was mostly in the beginning of the poem, "The ground shudders," was the beginning of the second stanza. "the clouds assemble and mumble their messages," came a few lines after and, "the earthworms huddles, " came a few lines after the line about clouds.
The author also used a lot of knowledgeable words like rapt, and avaricious, and he even made up a word, dragononing. I found this helped the poem sound elegant and pretty.
I thought about trying to find the deeper meaning of this poem but I think the poem is about what's right in front us, nature. The line, "Afternoon's ready to shove its spade deep in the dirt," and, "the clear-out's begun," I think means exactly what it says. It's talking about how all these organisms are living in this habitat and then a human caused disturbance disrupts that cycle. The clearing of that environment with the spade going into the dirt. Then some of the last lines talk about fire and fog which could mean smoke is talking about man made fires that kill all those organisms and their habitat. The poem then ends showing how life begins again with the line, "from the black horizon, four horses heave up, flash on their faces." Although flash usually means something sudden light a flash of light, it can also mean a sudden outburst of joy. So perhaps the author shows that although nature is destroyed it will grow back again and the things living there will be happy again when their habitat is restored.