Michael Kadish
8/22/95
.5
1) This poem demonstrates and destroys the concept of the title.
2) "Like old beggars," "coughing like hags," "blood-shod. All went lame, all blind," "guttering, choking, drowning," "white eyes writhing," "devil's sick of sin," "blood come gargling," "incurable sores."
b) The statement of this poem is beautiful.
3) The comparisons in lines 1, 14, 20, and 23 through 24 contribute to the poem by giving excessively colorful details.
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