While reading “resume” one can clearly see that the poem list many ways one could opt to stay alive. One can also see that author has a painful past. The speaker list different ways of death by suicide. The author also notes the downside of all the ways to kill oneself as she notes in the last line “You might as well live”. The poem reflects the up and downside of suicide. One doesn’t know that the poem is about death until reading that last line which give one the option of life instead of death
details. Where in the poem is there evidence to prove this notion to be true? In the beginning, he uses words such as "vacant midnight" to compare the veteran's stagnant life now to the chaotic moments he had experienced during the war, "stillness" when he talks about the silence and the calmness of the man's home, and "slumbering" when he describes the man's wife. Initiating the contrast, the man is inevitably encountered with a vision in
American Poetry. Upon reflecting ten questions/quotes in my reading, which are Toni Morrison “Recitatif”; A Confessional Poet, Anne Sexton; Lois Gordon’s quote about Adrienne Rich’s work; Devonney Looser’s question about Sylvia Plath’s Confessional Poems; Jeffery F. L. Partridge’s quote about Li-Young Lee’s work entitled, “Eating Alone”; Eudora Welty’s “Petrified Man”; Evelyn Avery’s quote about Bernard Malamud’s Ethnic Writings; Beverly Lyon Clark’s
one’s own skin no matter what society has deemed normal. To begin with, Corliss is quite comfortable with the respectable way she carries herself and her academic