In her poem “Abandoned Farmhouse”, Ted Kooser suggests that a farmhouse was abandoned after “Something went wrong”. Throughout the poem we see many of the artifacts that were left behind in the farmhouse.
The speaker’s description of the farmhouse sets a gloomy, depressing mood by using words such as “broken”, “abandoned”, and “empty”. The speaker uses personification and gives life to these artifacts that were left behind and tells us everything through their point of view. Each one of these artifacts reveals one trait of the family which consisted of a man, woman, and a child. For example on lines thirteen through fourteen Kooser asserts, “Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole.” Having