When asking what she still doesn't know, Smith quotes philosopher Maxine Greene c's response, "And she said, 'And then intellectually, I don't know enough about the negative imagination. And September 11th certainly taught us that that's a whole area we don't investigate." What do you think "the negative imagination" means, and how does this influence Anna Deavere Smith's process in selecting and developing characters?

there is not such an "uncle" in the poem "a servant to servants". the narrator refers to many characters -particularly her brother and her husband- both suffering from mental illness. the woman is also suffering because she does something to but she is not happy with the situation.

the poem has a dramatic monologue about the woman life's circumstances and her traumatic events form the past.

"a servant to servants" is a poem written by robert frost, and is part of a collection of poems "north of boston", of 1915.