Nothing Could Do That Nothing By Helen Woodson

The last three lines of the poem to me are the most powerful. "That stupid fire couldn't take all of them. Nothing could do that. Nothing", to me it narrator being vulnerable and I believe the narrator for a second lets down that wall he or she has built from the loss of his or her parents (Woodson). The narrator wants to be strong when talking about the loss of his or her parent and he or she may still believe that their parents are not gone, but in the end of the poem the narrator does show the reader that he or she does feel a sense of his or her parents not being there. It is as if the narrator is reminding his or her that nothing can take their parents away completely, but at the same time they have to deal with the fact that part of