This one on the platform, her smile twisted, the lipstick distorted, in her black fur coat and hat, is defiant, her smile sharpening as the train approaches and vanishing with the train's arrival. She boards with an assault motion. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG by ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM THE OLD BURYING-GROUND by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER A DREAM, OR THE TYPE OF THE RISING SUN by JEAN ADAMS LINES TO MR. WYNCH ON HIS FORTH-FIFTH BIRTHDAY by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE DEATH OF YE LIFE OF LOVE by JOSEPH BEAUMONT ZILLEBEKE BROOK by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN A MOTHER'S LAMENT [FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON] by ROBERT BURNS |