Original poem reprinted online here: "Fear" and "Note Slipped under a Door" by Charles Simic Originally read: March 18, 2013 More information about the Poet: Charles Simic So Poetry Daily does this sometimes -- put up two poems up by the same author. I found things interesting with both. In "Fear" it is the way the speaker sets up the a comparison . In "Note Slipped under a Door" it is how the speaker uses anaphora and observation to confirm multiple but "separate" images. "Fear" The first thing of note is how the metaphor works in the first stanza. Yes, the metaphor applies to "fear" as a concept, but the undertone here is the idea of "unknowing" how the concept transfers like how a leaf passes its "shudder" to another. So this unknowing fear fear, compared to with a natural occurrence, works as a synecdoche as the final two lines of the poem goes from leaf to tree, "All at once the w...
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