His poems speak to the enduring qualities of love and friendship.

These poems spoke of the fear and longing these children felt.

Indeed, analysis is almost superfluous, since if any poems can speak for themselves these can.

But the poem Crystal read spoke to another group: the violent young men who kill in her community.

The poem speaks of the American dream that never existed for the lower class American.

The poem speaks of troubled times and a fading of glory.

The poem was written for her father and speaks about her "shy as a deer" mother, Violet, who had died some years earlier.

The implied reader of Leapor's poems is, generally speaking, a female friend.

His other poem, "Reconciliation," also speaks of nature's blooming where "once blood did flow."

Written in 1846 the poem spoke to his political views of the time.