DDCPoetry

Original Poem Reprinted Online Here: "Body" by James Hoch More Information about the Poet: James Hoch Written in couplets, the poem is a connection between a son and a father.  Now, this doesn't spoil the poem because the techniques in the poem change and mold the ideas within the poem, mainly, what a father wants to leave a son, but the first six lines of the poem is lead up:      I hang it here, in the entry,     so it will be known simply      unmistakably as fact, the way      when you were born      you were merely a body      umbilic, barely breathing. So why so long until the context of the poem.  The first two lines of the poem are ambiguous and the "it" could only refer to the body.  So the focus is on the speaker's body and it appears that the poem is a metaphor -- hanging up the body for something.  The introduction of "you" in the second stanza indicates the son being bor...