Seamus Heany, Rita Dove and Sherman Alexie wrote three poems that promote punishments from different perspectives of life. The authors wrote in the third person and in different styles in each of the stories to help the reader get a better visual. The author's goal was to show a feeling towards punishment. Everyone deserves to be punished at least once in their life, either for something they did unintentionally or by nature. Although the poems are all about punishment, each author gives the reader their own meaning of the word in their own situation. Seamus Heany's beginnings as a poet began with his meeting the woman he was to marry and who was to be the mother of his three children. Marie Heaney played a central role in Heany's life, both professionally and imaginatively, appearing directly and indirectly in individual poems from all periods of his poetry. Heany wrote a poem called Punishment in which he describes to the reader how a woman is tortured because she has committed adultery. The narrator also shows a certain kind of affection towards the woman in a few lines saying: “I almost love you but I would have thrown away, I know, the stones of silence (1167). » This sentence proves that he loves the girl but know that everyone, even him, has already sinned. Heany's point of view shows sympathy and bitter love towards this act of punishment and shows me that Heany was hurt or subliminally received the other end of the punishment by describing the pain. Rita Dove was the youngest person and first African American ever. named Poet Laureate of the United States. Much of Dove's work focuses on revealing the beauty and meaning of everyday events in ordinary life. In "The Yellow House on the Corner (1980)" and "Museum (1983)", she shows how such moments constitute the history of individuals and add to the experiences that human beings share. This explains why she wrote a poem called The Cane Fields. The Cane Fields was about a group of Haitian soldiers who were attacked by the dictator of the Dominican Republic because they could not roll their r's in the word Perijil on October 2, 1957. In the story, there was a frequently used phrase which was "a parrot imitates spring", meaning that the parrot was a symbol of something beautiful and represented peace. This phrase was used repeatedly in each line after the narrator described his horror at the Dominican army to symbolize the gift and curse of war..