Analyzing The Chance to Love Everything

The chance to love everything implies having an open mind, a caring and appreciating attitude towards nature or even a love and acceptance for what we don’t know or understand.
The poem is a narrative, emotional and symbolic poem; The author, a woman most likely, seems to be talking about a first time camping experience in the countryside. She starts the poem with a tone of child-like joy and the phrase “All summer I made friends with the creatures nearby” (lines 1-2).

the style of the poem was poetic and narrative; It feels to me like a dream, a fairy tale or a bedtime story. At the beginning of the poem the author uses a tone that is child-like, observing, joyful and playful to describe her encounter with the little animals that are in her surroundings, the setting- a tent in the middle of the countryside- the wilderness; to later the tone being cautious and fearful, the imagination-driven fear of the unknown, to the sense of wondering and mystery, the reflective and almost romantic view that the author still hold for Nature by the end of the poem. the transition between nice, sweet and light to dark, dangerous and mysterious. the author shows a good transition between the emotional conflicts in the poem- her fear and uneasiness over the strange noise and the shadows outside her tent, her indecision over whether to get out of the tent and find out about what's out there in the dark, and her hold up desire to venture more into the dark of the night, into the wild to discover the mysteries of this natural world. I found endearing and funny that she didn't found a problem of having little animals looking for sugar and seeds and tumbling the breadbox.
the language and word choice the author uses are short detailed and descriptive “my gauzy house” (); many of the words are action description “They flowed through the fields….They paddled through the door…something was pressing inward…”(lines 3,5,14), describe sound “muttering and humming”(line 8), describe emotions “fear defeated me” (line 21), visual “the red eyes, the broad tongue”(line18-19), creates an atmosphere “…trembling, sure I had heard the click of claws, the smack of lips…”. (line16)
In some parts of the poem the author descriptions are poetic “…like the fading of the dearest, wildest hope… the dark heart of the story…” (lines 33-35).

To me the author of this poem is very similar to Dillard in the aspect that both of them have a fascination with their natural surrounding and the animals they find there, which in the poem is reflected by the way the poem's author seem to have a sort of idealized fairytale/horror movie vision of Nature, and both of them want to learn more and know more about Nature and they both venture out to do it.