A few of the poems got my eye as they appeared to make no sense. Most of the smaller poems a seem to have a harder time understanding than the shorter. "Dream Cycle" is one of the short poems I felt I needed to decipher. From the reading one could make an educated guess that it must be warm out seeing as though the writer is going on about how the ice cream truck could essentially cool them off. The ice cream truck seems to be the dream of which the writer named the poem for. Each line of the poem details what the ice cream truck could bring. For the writer, the longing to be cooled off by the treats the ice cream truck holds is the dream.


Other than the  full poems or long detailed ones there also lies "The Sonnets." Each a little poem of their own separated only by Roman numerals. The sonnet of XVI brought my curiosity out. The poem refers to a "she" which is never truly named, but is what desires to be heated. The heat could likely symbolize the strength of the Chinese itself. Demonstrating the rise of China's ability to defend itself from outsiders. A battle that has determined the fate for the area, the cold being the enemy while the heat being China.

Both the short poem and sonnet however, dealt in the matters of cold. In the "Dream Cycle" the ice was longed for, wanted, dreamed of. The sonnet of XVI had words that were fighting against what the cold brought. Both fought the extremes of temperature and desired an outcome to better the situation. The similarities to one another doesn't just end at temperature but symbols as well. The ice cream truck in "Dream Cycle" was the representation of getting cooled off  in a place that was to hot for comfort a dream that isn't happening but what is wanted to happen.. For the sonnet XVI the symbol used to represent the warm was the "Morning Land" which in tern was what resulted in the signal of the Chines wall, or victory rather..