I Am Offering this Poem The Home Quotes

In comparing his poem to a pot of yellow corn, the speaker uses imagery associated with the home. After all, it's at home that we sit down to have a hearty meal. So, even though these lines don't mention the word "home," they evoke it.

The speaker here compares his poem to a cabin or hogan. Cabins are types of homes, and so are hogans (traditional Navajo dwellings). Here the poem is compared to dwellings that are used as homes. Like a home, the poem can provide shelter.

In these lines, the speaker imagines a visit from his beloved at his cabin. The imagery that's used evokes a comfortable, cozy home: the beloved rests by the fire and feels safe.

The speaker's words here suggest that, ultimately, we must find our home not in the external world, but within something bigger than ourselves. The poem that the speaker offers helps the beloved to "go on living inside"—his love, his poem, or their relationship.