Friday, February 1, 2008

slim cunning hands

cozen: To mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive

this poem caught my attention because poems about death usually to. it's a really common subject, so it's interesting to see how people write about it so differently. the word choice in this poem is awsome. the author used words such as cunning, cozen, and false to constantly declare how deciving this person was in life. the poem says no one could write on her stone how untrue she was. then in the next line it controdicts itself and says that she was more beautful than any flower on earth. what i gathered from this poem that it was about a whore who was killed at a young age who was never true to any man nor herself, but was beautiful even in death.

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