Imagine coming across Grandma's old love letters, showing how she was once young, or playing the piano with her, or going so far as to explain something she rejects. almost immediately. This is the scenario that Hart Crane plays out in his poem “Love Letters from My Grandmother,” at least to some extent. He uses various poetic techniques to show many ideas, one of which is that the generation gap is so great that it is difficult to connect across the ages. One of the techniques Hart Crane uses is imagery to show how delicate and distressing the situation is. with the speaker's grandmother seems to be. The first example, which is part of the title, concerns his love letters. When they are first noted, the speaker describes them as "...brown and soft/And likely to melt like snow", which shows that they have been forgotten and have aged quite a bit in the over the years (10-11). Details can be used to represent the fragility of the situation. The second line, which shows rather than tells and helps set the scene for the delicacy of the plot, comes about halfway through the poem. The line “Everything hangs by an invisible white hair” shows the relationship between the grandmother and the grandchild, as it seems so thin that it barely exists (13). As stated previously, this also shows the delicacy of the situation playing out in the poem, as hair is easy to destroy, as is the bond they seem to share. The line that follows also uses imagery to help convey the mood of the poem. Crane uses the phrase "It trembles like birch branches clutching the air" to help picture in the mind the restless and nervous energy that seems to be connected to the situation (14). As a reader, there are other interpretations of the middle of the paper... And so I stumble. And the rain continues on the roof/With such a sound of softly plaintive laughter” that just lets out a feeling of resignation and humiliation (24-25). Obviously the granddaughter was confused and perhaps overwhelmed by what needed to be said and didn't like it because she was unaware of what was being said. She just laughed calmly, pitying her beloved, and the world moved on. The final stanza uses an end rhyme between the first two lines to further drive home the idea while briefly summarizing what appears to be the point of the poem. Imagine feeling defeated, the bond between grandmother and grandchild broken by the refusal to listen and the heartbreak that follows. This is what Hart Crane did so well in the poem “My Grandmother's Love Letters” by using simplistic words to convey a much deeper and complex meaning that many can relate to..