DDCPoetry

Original poem reprinted online here: "Bloodletting" by Alex Dimitrov Originally read: June 1, 2013 More information about the Poet: Alex Dimitrov When reread this poem, I focused too intently on past me's notes, "Mockery of the divine -- Dionysian focus?  Human focus." And throughout the poem, I tried to find more cases of mockery and how it affects the poem.  Also, I spent some time thinking of what Fellini's works fit in with the reference made in the poem.  Perhaps, Fellini's Cassanova . Yet, the more and more I read the lines -- the couplets, and how the speaker views the "you" in the poem, I feel the tone and the allusion work more of a stage presence, some backdrop in order to characterize both the speaker and the "you" in this sort of world. But yet I digress, The first lines does indeed have a Dionysian effect, "The gods have no choice / but to let us live a little -- / they would die for comedy."  However, the shift...