In this video episode [9:32] from The Favorite Poem Project, Jessie Alspaugh, a college student who is confined to a wheelchair due to complete paralysis, through her assistive technology, describes her life in an independent setting and explains why Theodore Roethke's poem entitled "The Waking" connects to his life. The poem discusses the need to live independently, no matter what her physical challenges are. Then Alsbaugh, via the mode of assistive technology again, reads aloud "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost.