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Original poem reprinted online here: "The Bladder" by David Keplinger Originally read: April 7, 2013 More information about the Poet: David Keplinger I find this poem allusive heavy towards Beowulf.  Or is it me trying to make the poem allusive heavy through the term "The Haunter Mere."  In any case, the poem tries to balance the "real" with the "allusive" or maybe not.  It's weird since the tone of the poem seems to shift with every sentence.  Well since this is a short poem then I should go by sentence by sentence. "He who'll lose his bladder calls it Three Days Down, or / The Haunted Mere."  So here's when I think the poem is allusive heavy due to the way the sentence is constructed.  Note how the third person perspectives adds a mythic feel to the line also the renaming of something as something else as "Three Days Down" (which it can be taken as modern vernacular) or, more importantly allusive wise, "The ...