Make a list of the images that you would use to symbolically describe the town or city in which you live; then write a poem using those images.

After researching the symbolist poets of the latenineteenth century, write an essay arguing for the ways in which "Daylights" is and is not a symbolist poem.

Write a story about a time when you encountered violence. Explain what you learned from the experience.

Pick one other poem from Warren's collection Each Leaf Shines Separate and explain how it is part of another poem or work of art.