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About a son going down in his fathers well. There, he's welcomed by the gloomy light and dark atmosphere. He struck his head and the blood started to seep...
Each stanza is made out of four sentences...
The son saves the neighbours missing dog, which is why he got down there. The poem tell a story rather than it has a very deep meaning...
In the Well - By Andrew Hudgins Written in 2001
Themes: Courage, endurance, heroic
Uses contrastes and surprises to colour the poem
My father cinched the rope, a noose around my waist, and lowered me into the darkness. I could taste my fear. It tasted first of dark, then earth, then rot. I swung and struck my head and at that moment got another then: then blood, which spiked my mouth with iron. Hand over hand, my father dropped me from then to then: then water. Then wet fur, which I hugged to my chest. I shouted. Daddy hauled the wet rope. I gagged, and pressed my neighbor's missing dog against me. I held its death and rose up to my father. Then light. Then hands. Then breath.
