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It! Diction
No one can see me, no one would stop me, no
one could help me. They would just call the _____ but it would be too late. My
only regret is _____. She’d have the coffee on. There was a time during my
search for a cure when I tried everything to stop including giving up _______.
The smell filled the ______. I loved to drink a ______ of ______ in the
_______, to say ______ to ______ after we’d spent another _______ together. I’d
tell her now it’s going okay except for the poison. It’s going okay except for
how much I miss her and ______. _______? ______?! I’ve never been a very good
______.
Police, my mother,
on life, room, cup, tea, morning, good morning, mother, night, the poison,
okay, poison, liar
No one can see me,
no one would stop me, no one could help me. They would just call the _____ but
it would be too late. My only regret is _____. She’d have the coffee on. There
was a time during my search for a cure when I tried everything to stop
including giving up _______. The smell filled the ______. I loved to drink a
______ of ______ in the _______, to say ______ to ______ after we’d spent
another _______ together. I’d tell her now it’s going okay except for the
poison. It’s going okay except for how much I miss her and ______. _______?
______?! I’ve never been a very good ______.
Hospital, my wife,
the marriage, outside, glass, wine, evening, goodnight, my beloved, moment,
want her, miss, want, liar
I think even
before I filled in the blanks, the poem had a very dark tone to it. I think the
first one is not as sad compared to the second paragraph I did. The differences
in the two paragraphs is that it feels like the speaker is remembering good
times he shared with his mother, as to not having many good things to say about
his wife. Another difference I want to point out is in the first paragraph, the
speaker spent a whole day with his mother, where as to his wife, they only have
moments with each other. Also, in the last two lines, the speaker lies to his
mother about everything being alright, while in the second paragraph he lies to
his wife about missing her. I get the sense that the speaker has a bit of
melancholy towards his wife, for whatever reasons. One thing is the speaker lies
to both women in his life to spare their emotions.
