Answer:
Extracted from the poem: "Verses upon the Burning of our House"
And here and there the places spy
Where oft I sat and long did lie:
Here stood that trunk, and there that chest,
There lay that store I counted best.
The poem is based on the real story of how a house was consumed by flames. In this abstract the author is talking about the way she remembered the house, she uses the trunk and the chest as objects to represent her nostalgic feeling towards the house.
Connotative meaning refers to the meaning that the author gives to a word independently for its real definition. In this case trunk represents nostalgia.
