And this blank page where my fingers move
-- Speaker (Line 4)

Importance: The page on which the speaker writes is a recurring motif throughout the poem, though it appears in different forms as the poem progresses. This line, at the end of the first stanza, signifies the poem’s core themes: the pursuit of creativity. The speaker introduces the blank page to set up the direction the poem takes and their ultimate accomplishment and fulfillment by the end.

Though deeper within darkness / Is entering the loneliness
-- Speaker (Lines 7-8)

Importance: This line uses alliteration and consonance in the repeated D and “ness” sounds, creating a sense of musicality and rhythm as the speaker’s creative inspiration slowly approaches. The phrasing communicates the fox as coming from a space out of reality and time, closer than the stars but in a deeper darkness than the night sky. This alludes to the dark space of the innermost subconscious.

Two eyes...
-- Speaker (Lines 11-12)