Original poem reprinted online here: "Thanks for Remembering Us" by Dana Gioia Originally read: December 20, 2012 (so it says) More information about the Poet: Dana Gioia So the real meat of the poem happens at the end of the first stanza "Is one of us having an affair? / At first we laugh, and then we wonder." I wrote down in a past analysis that this is a "hard turn." Yet looking back this comment, I feel that the idea of a possible affair was foreshadowed or at least a turmoil in the marriage. Then in the second stanza I can't help but see the images of symbols in the relationship. The slow decay of flowers with the more "sickly sweet" (which I call cliche in my original marks, but I think it still holds) changing into a smell like a funeral home. Now this is the point where I wrote this: "This is really good -- the lead up to the simile is lackluster description [looking back, visually the descriptions are a bit well not as great ...
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