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Original poem reprinted online here: "Elegy" by Jaswinder Bolina Originally read: March 22, 2013 More information about the Poet: Jaswinder Bolina Past me wrote a lot about the usage of "image" in this poem, and how there's an interplay between the projected image, and the "now" image.  But first, the first line irritates me a whole lot, "In sun the sunburned skin sloughs off the sunburned shoulder."  I think it's the over alliteration and the repetition that does irritates me where, sonically, the adjectives, nouns, and verbs just mesh with eachother. Then I realized, well, maybe this is the risky entry into the poem -- that the first line of the "Elegy" is meant to be blurred and distorted through meaning and sound because the poem isn't about the "body" (a mess of sorts falling apart according to the first line), but about how someone interprets the body. So there's the second line, "Most folks believe ...