737), the poet Jean Toomer describes many image that affected me strongly, and that disturb me. These involve cutting, chopping, death, and monotony.

             First is cutting. The whole poem has strong images, but for me field rat that is killed in blades of mower was worst one. The field rat "startled, squealing bleeds (Line 6). This is very cruel and stark image, and this emphasizes the impersonal way mower is just for working and not stopping, no matter what, or no matter if something lives or die.

             Other images remind me strongly of death and monotony, and make me feel depressed. For example, black horses (line 5) often are use at funeral, for transporting casket of deceased persons. In the poem, these black horses pull along a mowing machine with sharp blades that killed the field rat. The "Black reapers" (line 1) are human, but seem so mechanical they seem dead, numb from always working the same way every day. .

             Most monotonous (but threatening) images, to me, are "sharpening scythes" (line 2); "a thing that's done" (line 3) and "continue cutting weeds and shade" (line 8). These images make me feel numbness (from repetition); despair, futility. This is because effect is like no difference exists at all between machines and humans.

             Other memorable images in "Reapers" make me picture sharpness and cutting, and being injured and in pain. The feeling I get from these images, then, is being scared and vulnerable. Images of sharpness, for example the "sharpening scythes" (p. 1); "blade" (line 7), and "cutting" (line 8) make me feel powerless, almost identifying with field rat. .

             In this poem, "Reapers", Jean Toomer's images of death, monotony, and cutting are very depressing and also make me feel a mood of hopelessness, fright, and despair, maybe like the black reapers themselves, or field rat that is killed by the mower.