Original poem reprinted online here: "Complaint of Achilles' Heel" by Charles Jensen Originally read: June 13, 2013 More information about the Poet: Charles Jensen After reading this poem a couple of times, past me wrote this note pointing to the "Achilles' Heel" in the title, "Is this the perspective?" Well, it is. The speaker plays with the perspective and language in order to give a different interpretation of Achilles. The tone of the speaker is playful in the beginning, "Everyone's so quick to blame my / tenderness." And the language splits a bit between the physical and the emotional automatically. Mixed with the playful tone, it seems the speaker doesn't take the scenario seriously. Yet, the simile of the next line, "My wound opening like a mouth / to kiss an arrow's steel beak" is oddly direct. The perspective is further personified with the line attempting to make the speaker into a separate entity fro...
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