There is a poem called “Snow Day” by Billy Collins, the schools have all been closed in the area, which means snow day. The author first wakes up to so much snow that they can’t see what they would see on a normal day, such as the trees and the grass, the sight before them is foreign compared to what they normally see. They then end the poem talking about young girls plotting what seems to be a snow ball fight against some other young lady, and they are attempting to choose their victim. For my word choice that I looked at, I looked at the word “prisoner” in line 16. The line says “But for now I am a willing prisoner in this house” (line 16). The word prisoner normally has a negative connotation in which you think of someone who is being held against their will in either a prison or somewhere that resembles a prison. The author is trying to express the fact that normally they do not want to spend all their time in the house, but yet on this snow day that is exactly where they would like to be. The word prisoner allows the reader to see that normally the author would prefer to not stay in the house but since there is snow everywhere, they are willingly staying in today.
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