02-18-2021, 04:30 PM
The line breaks work in this piece. It adds to the words and feel of the poem overall. “No morbid fascination just desire/to understand and help.” That interested me because the pathologist isn’t about “morbid fascination” but the line ends at “desire” that’s an interesting word choice in the subject of the piece, and then the next line is “to understand” but the pathologist already understands, so really understand could mean anything. It just really opens the reader to different interpretations. Kinda like reading in between the lines.
This poem is a lot deeper than what’s written. I really enjoy the lines “Immersion in your grief makes me/grieve-/as you do. I thought that was perfectly written. A lot of emphasis in the word “grieve” in those lines. I also like the word immersion, obviously because the speaker is a pathologist so it works.
“No false sympathy,/only empathy in grief” >>>I believe that’s already obvious throughout the entire piece. It just doesn’t fit the overall tone of the poem because it is a bit direct while everything else feels a little more morbid.
I really like this poem. I like the build up to the shocking end because as a reader I can see the layers of the poem when I reread it.
This poem is a lot deeper than what’s written. I really enjoy the lines “Immersion in your grief makes me/grieve-/as you do. I thought that was perfectly written. A lot of emphasis in the word “grieve” in those lines. I also like the word immersion, obviously because the speaker is a pathologist so it works.
“No false sympathy,/only empathy in grief” >>>I believe that’s already obvious throughout the entire piece. It just doesn’t fit the overall tone of the poem because it is a bit direct while everything else feels a little more morbid.
I really like this poem. I like the build up to the shocking end because as a reader I can see the layers of the poem when I reread it.