"Snapping Beans" by Lisa Parker, "Nighttime Fires" by Regina Barreca, "Love Poem" by John Frederick Nims, and "Song" by John Donne all demonstrates excellent use of imagery in their writing. All the authors have done an excellent job of illustrating how the use of imagery helps the reader understand what the author's message is. However, some poems use poetic devices as well different tones. In “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker and “Nighttime Fires” by Regina Barreca, both poems show good use of personification. However, in “Song” by John Donne and in “Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims, they differ in that the tone used in each poem is in contrast to each other. The poem "Snapping Beans" by Lisa Parker is about a girl who visits her grandmother , such as how school is going. The girl responds by saying that school is going well, but she knows that her grandmother would not approve of her social circle and what they do and talk about. The narrator does a great job of using imagery and personification to help the reader understand on an emotional level how the student might feel while sitting on the porch with his grandmother. An example of personification in this poem would be: “About the nights I cried in the familiar/grieving panels of the quilt he made for me” (26-27). This use of personification indicates that the quilt panels are grieving because the girl cries into her quilt every night because she misses her grandmother so much. In Regina Barreca's poem “Night Fires,” the narrator explains her complex view of her father. Imagery plays an important role in this poem because it vividly illustrates for the reader the girl's impression of the images of her father...in the middle of the sheet of paper. The similar use of personification in Lisa Parker's "Snapping Beans" and the use of diction and imagery in Regina Barreca's "Nighttime Fires" support how the use of different poetic devices aids in imagery. The contrasting tones of John Donne's "Song" and John Frederick Nims' "Love Poem" show how, even though the poems are opposite tones of each other, this does not mean the amount of changes in the imagery. Works Cited Parker, Lisa. “Snap beans.” Literature to take away. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. 338-39. Print.Barreca, Regina. "Night Fires". Literature to take away. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. 353-54. Print.Frederick Nims, John. "Love poetry". Literature to take away. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. 358-59. Print.Donne, John. "Song." Literature to take away. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2014. 465-66. Press