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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...

Original poem reprinted online here:   "Marriage" by William Carlos Williams Originally read: September 14, 2013 More information about the Poet:   William Carlos William I think this poem is set up as either an homage or a critique of Ezra Pound's famous poem "In a Station of the Metro" .  In any case, this short poem works similar with the punctuation meaning more than the poem.      So different, this man      And this woman:      A stream flowing      In a field. Now the first punctuation is the comma which puts the "difference" as the first thing to read forcing a sense of how to read the poem.  Difference. Man and women.  Now the next punctuation is a colon which indicates the previous phrase is defined by the following image. Then the question is who is the stream.  And who is the field?  I think this poem is tongue-in-cheek that way.