“The Farmer among the Tombs” by Wendell Berry presents a surface level call to action in utilizing the space taken up by graveyards, affecting the audience in a powerful way; however, when read closely this poem shows its other side, a side contained in Berry’s nuanced hints that draw the reader to a deeper conclusion. It is obviously that this poem contains a specific structure: two sections (or sentences) that convey contradictory tones separated by a line of two short imperative commands. The first portion describes a problem that Berry wants to communicate, telling the reader a story of imprisonment. An anecdote of the deceased being trapped in their graves, longing to nourish the soil that surrounds them. In the first line, Berry says,
