Written Response to “An examination of her body after
death”
In the poem “An examination of her body after death” written by Glen Colquhoun. The poem is about a person who is examining a dead loved one who has passed away. The writer who is examining the body is usually in denial of her dying and remembering what out her looked like. The two language features that helped me understand these two main ideas that the writer portrayed through then poem was how he uses negative words and the use of metaphors.
One of the important ideas in the poem is denial. At the start of every stanza, the writer repeats the same words but describing different parts of her body, for example when she says, “You are not her shoulders”. In the poem, the writer is making statements of denial also; he is not ready to accept anything about his dead loved one. The word “not” is the negative word the writer uses many times and since it is repetitive, it is bold and usually will stay in the readers mind. Since the negativity is very clear in the poem, it makes it very easy to understand the writer’s main idea in the poem.
Another idea in the poem is remembering and the author uses metaphors to show this. In the third stanza the writer makes a statement about her eyes for example, the writer says “These broken headlight on a car”. The writer is referring to her eyes what it looks like now that she is dead, her eyes are not actually smashed but he is comparing it to smashed headlights. Smashed headlights look as if it has all its life sucked out of it; its use is no more. A headlight on a car when it is shining it is, bright and active. In this case, when he remembers she was alive, her eyes reminded him of the sun, how it was bright and active.
The author’s purpose of this poem was to show the writer’s grief towards his passed loved one. The two of the many ways he showed his grief to the reader was by using negative words and metaphors. By using negative words, the tone was clear how he was negative and in denial. Lastly, the use of metaphors to create an image in the reader’s mind.
In the poem “An examination of her body after death” written by Glen Colquhoun. The poem is about a person who is examining a dead loved one who has passed away. The writer who is examining the body is usually in denial of her dying and remembering what out her looked like. The two language features that helped me understand these two main ideas that the writer portrayed through then poem was how he uses negative words and the use of metaphors.
One of the important ideas in the poem is denial. At the start of every stanza, the writer repeats the same words but describing different parts of her body, for example when she says, “You are not her shoulders”. In the poem, the writer is making statements of denial also; he is not ready to accept anything about his dead loved one. The word “not” is the negative word the writer uses many times and since it is repetitive, it is bold and usually will stay in the readers mind. Since the negativity is very clear in the poem, it makes it very easy to understand the writer’s main idea in the poem.
Another idea in the poem is remembering and the author uses metaphors to show this. In the third stanza the writer makes a statement about her eyes for example, the writer says “These broken headlight on a car”. The writer is referring to her eyes what it looks like now that she is dead, her eyes are not actually smashed but he is comparing it to smashed headlights. Smashed headlights look as if it has all its life sucked out of it; its use is no more. A headlight on a car when it is shining it is, bright and active. In this case, when he remembers she was alive, her eyes reminded him of the sun, how it was bright and active.
The author’s purpose of this poem was to show the writer’s grief towards his passed loved one. The two of the many ways he showed his grief to the reader was by using negative words and metaphors. By using negative words, the tone was clear how he was negative and in denial. Lastly, the use of metaphors to create an image in the reader’s mind.
