"Stethoscope":
- I can tell the “Stethoscope” is one seven short poems by noting that each poem gets some space before and after, and that seems like it conveys a new idea by separating. Each section is only five stanzas long, they are very brief and straightforward but also mean a lot.
- This poem seems to record the feelings of Denis Johnson’s some meaningful stories that he had experienced before, such as feeling for the small self in the universe. It conveys the awe of life, the fear of death and the desire for love, etc. I think these feelings are basically everyone will experience, but everyone will have different levels of views on the same field. I believe these separate sections can not be read together because those sections want to express different ideas and meanings, reading together will make readers confused. In my point of view, each subsection must be relevant, and readers may not understand it, but the author's attitude towards it will be even stronger.
I agree with your statement on the poem that Denis Johns feelings can be found throughout the poems and that they are stories of things he has experienced before.The relatability of the poems can be seen in all of them since they are thoughts that we think of in our day to day life. most questions go unanswered we are the ones that ask them.
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