Catharine Garbo
8 English
28 April 2009



“Happiness”:
An essay about the theme of a poem and how it relates to my life.

(TS)“There’s just no accounting for happiness,” is what Jane Kenyon says in her poem “Happiness”. (SD) The theme is simply stated in her first line of this poem. (CM) You can’t predict happiness, you don’t know when it will come to you or why. (CM) Anybody con find it, “it comes to the woman sweeping the street” or it can sneak up on you like a crazy friend, or just be there when you need it, but you never know. (SD) When Kenyon was writing this she noticed that happiness can come to anybody. (CM) Four instance in the fourth stanza of her poem, she states all the people happiness can go to. (CM) She could also be trying to get across to all of the readers that happiness comes to you. (SD) Happiness can go to anyone, including “the dog chewing a sock”. (CM) This quote relates to my life when I watch my dog, Pearl sneak up and steel a dirty sock that has been thrown on the ground from a long day. (CM) When I see Pearl chewing on this sock you can see the happiness in her eyes, as she shreds the pieces on cotton apart, and scatters them along the floor. (CS) This poem simply relates happiness to my life.