"The Names" by: Billy Collins
In this poem, the authors purpose is to tell you about all the deaths of 9/11 and the emotion of their loved ones. "I walked barefoot among thousands of flowers, heavy with dew like the eyes of tears, each had a name," "the flowers heavy with dew," is the tears and sadness of those who have lost their loved ones and when he says "each had a name," he is talking about the people who have died. Also, in the poem he names the people who had died in alphabetical order. "And when I saw the silver glaze on the windows, I started with A, with Ackerman, as it happened, then Baxter and Calabro" The silver gaze is sort of like the sadness and depression of the people, I believe and he went in order of the people who had died alphabetically. The tone of this poem is rather depressing, because he speaks of these people who had died and the people who had lost the ones the loved. It really lets you know how tragic 9/11 was.