In contrast, in the first poem, the speaker is a house, “take care, you fool,/and do not forget that I am just a house” that speaks with a burlesque, and blunt tone ("Casa" 58). The owner of the house has faced hard circumstances when his wife or children had left, but consequently, the house mocks him or her and exclaims “color me surprised! I did not notice they were gone” (“Casa” 15). On the other hand, in “The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods” the speaker it is unknown, however, it is a person because he is sitting “on the bench” and “smoking” waiting for the “fugitive to claim him as his own” (“The Strangers” 25,26). And the tone of this poem differs from the first being this reflective “I am as wise as any stranger here, alone but with the knowledge that the grief of separation is always brief” (“The Strangers”
In contrast, in the first poem, the speaker is a house, “take care, you fool,/and do not forget that I am just a house” that speaks with a burlesque, and blunt tone ("Casa" 58). The owner of the house has faced hard circumstances when his wife or children had left, but consequently, the house mocks him or her and exclaims “color me surprised! I did not notice they were gone” (“Casa” 15). On the other hand, in “The Strangers Who Find Me in the Woods” the speaker it is unknown, however, it is a person because he is sitting “on the bench” and “smoking” waiting for the “fugitive to claim him as his own” (“The Strangers” 25,26). And the tone of this poem differs from the first being this reflective “I am as wise as any stranger here, alone but with the knowledge that the grief of separation is always brief” (“The Strangers”