After reading Scars by Ruth Stone I immediately thought about how she uses scars as different symbols throughout the poem. While I first got the impression that scars were the overall theme for the poem I did some research and discovered Stone uses her personal experiences to influence her poetry. I then learned that her second husband, poet, and writer Walter Stone committed suicide leaving her to raise three children. From this point on this incident marked her poetry for the rest of her life. She also uses colors and textures throughout to poem Scars which to me signifies her love and taste for everyday things the average person overlooks or takes for granted. This detail showed a great sense of her creativity and how to advance her skills were. She is able to grasp the attention of her audience without over-using popular or familiar dialogue in her poetry. I also have seen some traditional ceremonial usage in Scars. By including these types of practices Stone reaches a certain target audience without openly excluding those who may not participate in those types of things. Again, we see such a clever way she uses her work in multiple ways giving different messages and reaching different types of audiences. Although the death of her husband was tragic, it may be seen as something that impacted her work in a positive way. At times people experiences tragic things in their life which brings out emotions they may not have used or knew they had in them. These emotions often allows individuals to tap into a layer within their creativity that could not be used in an ordinary situation.