Poem Explication "Hay for the Horses" Gary Snyder
             In the poem of Hay for my Horses, Snyder is telling the story of a man who has bucked hay most of his life, through the eyes of another man who is receiving hay from the man bringing it. The man bringing the hay, is a rough hard man and as he sits, he reflects on his life, maybe not so much disappointed with his life now, just that he said a long time ago that he wasn't going to do something and then the realization, at that particular moment that that is exactly what he has done.
             Snyder explains the situation right of in the first few lines about how this man from Mariposa is coming to bring hay and how he has to travel dangerous mountain roads. How the man bringing the hay has driven half the night. All of these things give you a sense of the type of man that is delivering the hay. The way the first paragraph of the poem is worded seems to give the affect to this Hay Bucker. Things like: half the night, from far down, up the dangerous mountain roads. All of these things help to establish a mood for the man bringing in the hay.
             The Hay Bucker then pulls in, in the early morning and unloads the hay with the man he is delivering it to. The wording seems to help establish a mood that the man pulling in would be tired from driving half the night and so he would probably be pretty grumpy or probably a little short on patience. The wording seems to be as rough as the Hay bucker's attitude might be after his long journey. The poem talks about his big truckload of hay behind the barn. His big truckload makes it seem that the man driving might be just as big as his truckload of hay. The words he uses like: winch, rope, and hooks. These words establish a harsh picture in your eyes of this extremely tough job and the extremely tough type of man to do it. The wording used is very harsh sounding, helping to get a better mood set for the poem.
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