Write an explication of one of the three attached poems, two of which are sonnets. Use MLA style without the
long heading. Double-space your explication. It should be 300 words.
Crickets
Always the mind goes back
to being alone,
near the lake
where my Grandfather
spent one hundred dollars
for some land,
and built a cottage
with the biggest foreplace
I have ever seen.
On warm nights
I would lie out on the dock
listening to the crickets.
I would hear them
over the water,
telling me
I was home