Untitled- Stephen Crane

      Although this poem uses simple language and is extremely short, it has probably made the most vivid picture in my head out of all the other poems we have read so far. It's a pretty gruesome and depressing image, but still a huge impact is made. I feel this poem is saying how man easily destroys himself and yet while it's disturbing and he knows it's wrong, still somehow finds joy in that self pity and does nothing about it. We complain about things in our lives on a daily basis, yet don't fix something that is so easily fixable. I like that this poem leaves just enough room for the reader to make their own interpretation, yet is long enough to create a image vivid enough to want to look deeper to make that interpretation. The title also leaves another question of what this poem is really about. The title is what sums up the poem and brings it all together, without that piece the reader has to do that for themselves. I could've taken this a completely different way then another reader given the exact same poem. Stephen Crane is an amazing writer for being able to do all this in such a limited amount of words, I really liked this poem because of that.