Seeing 2 (page 145)

Edward Hirsch focuses the emptiness of the painting. He first explains that this house stands out as if it's someone being stared at. Something is fishy about this house and something makes you want to look at it longer. He goes on to explain details of the house, the rooftop, the porch and it's structure. He tries to give the reader an idea of what the painter was thinking when he painted this. He states, "he (Edward) is as brutal as sunlight, and believes the house must have done something horrible to the people who once lived here". Makes the reader questions what really happened and what the painter was thinning when he produced this painting.  Edward Hirsch continues to explain detail and the loneliness of the painting. He describes the house as human. As "someone being stared at". At the end he states, "someone who is about to be left alone again, and can no longer stand it." Here he is talking about the house. How this house is now empty and no one is living in it and over time with no care is will get too hold to stand and fall. I think the repetitions and structural elements enhances the painting. You read a sentence about a man being stared at and then the second time you read it you understand that  it's talking about the house. There's just enough detail and bits of confusion scattered across the poem to make the house looks so much more interesting. It's not just a house anymore, it's whatever your imagination wants to think it is.