In “Forgotten Planet,” the speaker is reminded that knowledge erodes wonder. Through a series of events, the speaker discovers a new destiny for his daughter, while he uncovers knowledge waiting to be understood. The first stanza focuses on introducing why the flashback is happening. For example, in lines 1 and 2, the poem draws the reader directly into a conversation between the speaker and his daughter, and when she says, "Venus... Mars... Plunis!" ", this causes the speaker to enter a flashback, beginning in line 3. The speaker takes us back to a time when he was six or seven years old, when his father would wake him up in the middle of the night to go see the rain of meteors mentioned on their television. He also describes his surroundings, in lines 4-7, such as saying, "We went to the playground and lay on our backs on the concrete, looking for the meteors that the TV said were going to rain." » The second stanza focuses on the details of the imagery. flashback. For example, in lines 9-11 he says, “I don’t remember any meteors. I remember my back pressed against planet Earth, my father's mass like gravity....