Write a brief essay discussing the use of imagery in both "Grandma Ling" and "your little
voice." Examine the ways in which each poem uses images to convey the emotions or attitudes
of its speaker. Use the reading selection to help you answer the question.

"Your Little Voice" uses imagery in the lines "over time//and tide and death//leaping", conveying the sadness of the death through comparing the voice to the movement of wind and waves. "Grandma Ling" uses imagery in the lines: "to take to heart the eldest daughter//of her youngest son a quarter century away", by comparing the distance in time and geography as well as in cultural differences, to express the emotional distance between families far apart.

"facing the rising sun of our new day begun

let us march on till victory is won.",

because the rising sun is a symbol of hope.