DDCPoetry

Poem found here:  "Marriage" by Lawrence Raab This poem does transitions really well: from hypothetical to real, to male to female, to third to first person and so the content of the poem is more of a compliment to the form and vice versus; however, the content of the poem is quite contrasting. The poem is a narrative which starts off with the background that "years later" -- more like an afterthought.  The narrative starts out with the husband asking hypothetical questions?      What if      I hadn’t phoned, he says, that morning?      What if you’d been out,      as you were when I tried three times      the night before? Note that this is the only lines the husband have -- he is the one that brings in the doubt in the relationship.  Or rather, by instigating the questioning he's awaiting a response (there is no response from the husband later on in the poem.  The transition then is to the w...