The Book by Miller Williams

I'm going to try not putting up the poem for this response. I don't think I'm going to like it.

The first stanza is only one sentence long and puts emphasis on the poem itself. It adds to the horror tale feel of it all and makes the reader excited for what's to come.

The second stanza gives of the bunker information. This made my AP class and I think of WWII and how the Jewish people's skin were sometimes used for lamp shades, book bindings, etc . . . Discusting, physically and morally.

It flows into the thirds stanza concluding that the book is in fact bound in skin.

Stanza's 4-7 are the book owners thoughts on the changed book and how they process in his mind. It is a flow and a jumble of the questions that are coming to relization non-stop. The book is changing in his hands. The 7th stanza is the most intriguing. As Corey brought to attention in class the significance in stanza 7, I couldn't help but wonder if it could mean different things to different people. "Who took it off the meat? Some other one who stayed alive by knowing how to do this?"

"I stared at the changing book and a horror grew, I stared and a horror grew, which was, which is, how beautiful it was until I knew." Last stanza. I think it is important because it finalizes how the owners emotions are about the book and the true horror he is holding in his hands. Earlier in the poem it states how the owner kept it to maybe use it as a diary. A diary is usually something you keep to yourself because you pour your soul into it. He pured his soul into someones else's skin.

I like how my thought process works when I don't have the poem to look at but I think the absence of the poem damages the readers experience and keeps them from forming there own opinion through mine rather than believing in my theories alone.