Both are about a person regretting something they did in the past, which represents many people in the United States today. The main character of “Guilty at the Rapture” is very lonely, just like the sixty-eight-year-old farmer Snyder talks about in “Hay for the Horses.” Both characters live with remorse rather than trying to resolve it and I know this because in the poem "Hay for the Horses" the farmer is sixty-eight years old and still doing what he hates. Similarly in “Guilty at the Rapture”, the main character smokes and then tries to cover himself with mint even though he knows that smoking is