A silence slipping around like death, Yet chased by a whisper, a sigh,
a breath; One group of trees, lean,
naked and cold,
Inking their cress
'gainst a sky green-gold;

One path that knows where the
corn flowers were;
Lonely, apart, unyielding, one fir;
And over it softly leaning down,
One star that I loved ere the
fields went brown
1. What words or phrases have positive connotations in the second stanza ?

2. In the second stanza , the speaker personifies a star. Describe who the speaker compares the star to . Then describe how this personification influences the mood of the poem . Use two details from the poem in your response .