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Analysis of "Elegy with lies" by Bob Hicok

Original poem reprinted online here: "Elegy with lies" by Bob Hicok Originally read: May 13, 2013 More information about the Poet: Bob Hicok Past me wrote about the title, "Elegy with lies -- but it's honest about the elegy having lies -- focus how the lies operate."  So with an elegy, a poem honoring a dead person, there's bound to be overstatements and understatements. The first line deals with overstatement, "This lost person I loved.  Loved for a hundred years."  The overstatement is a personal view that continues to develop as the narrative continues. Narrative elegy?  Well, the story is the speaker is searching for her "in a forest."  And the speaker tries two different things to find her -- "call her name," and "build a machine that believes it's God to call her." The first attempt where the speaker tries to call out for the person.  Note how the  call is qualified with a parenthetical response of "noth...