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Poet: Sharon Olds
Poem: The Pope's Penis
Comment 10 of 10, added on December 3rd, 2011 at 2:55 PM.
For whom the bell tolls.
I love it./
It MOVES me/
to no End.
Regular Joe from United States
Comment 9 of 10, added on December 3rd, 2011 at 2:55 PM.
I love it.
I love it.
It MOVES me
to no End.
Joe from United States
Comment 8 of 10, added on May 6th, 2010 at 7:39 AM.
I think the poem is controversial, not because of the shock value ascribed to writing about the Pope or his penis, but because Olds is using these two references to point out the hypocrisy of that type of power and supposed restraint-sexual or otherwise. Not to go into too much detail here, but I feel this poem has more to do with the hypocrisy of alleged authority in general, and the Catholic church in particular, rather than the fact that the Pope is "just a man". Man can be just as malevolent as he can be altruistic.
Kaiti from Greece
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I love it./
It MOVES me/
to no End.
Regular Joe from United States