Original poem reprinted online here: "Base Camp" by Tom Healy Originally read: February 26, 2013 More information about the Poet: Tom Healy Rereading this poem, I wonder who the "we" is referring to. Yes, another focus on the ambiguous pronoun because the importance of the other shifts throughout the poem. And yes, this poem is from Poet's.org where the poet talks about something in the poem. I read it. Some things make sense, but doesn't change my interpretation of the poem. I interpret this poem through the technique introduced in the beginning -- very short lines that break up a sentence; yet, the context for the short lines is in the first line "How much oxygen" where the focus is to interpret each line as a breath -- trying to say something important through fragments and leads to a sense of speed and multiple interpretations. The first rhetorical.uses an either/or strategy where the stronger of the two options will tend to over take the p...
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