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Poet: Raymond Carver
Poem: Your Dog Dies
Poem of the Day:
Dec 24 2000
Comment 31 of 31, added on March 5th, 2008 at 1:05 PM.
this poem is sick i like it i keep reading it over and over
ernie from United States
Comment 30 of 31, added on June 19th, 2007 at 10:34 PM.
This is an amazing poem. I wonder about those of you who just write, "This is terrible" or some such. Why bother to comment if you're not going to explain your ideas, your thoughts, your analysis? I can't even tell if some of you have put thought into it. Maybe you just have a good/terrible button on your keyboard...
The beauty of this poem is in the way it reaches toward illuminating the truth that art, or creativity, mitigates the suffering of being human. The author loves his daughter and loved the dog. Death is ultimately inescapable. The only thing that makes the painful situation of life, love and death bearable is writing a poem about it. Then the poem turns out to be so good that it does more than take the edge off the suffering; it brings the writer happiness! A kind of happiness-despite-death. What more could any of us ask for? It's all we've got as mortals in this world.
A woman is yelling at him. She's trying to break into what he's built as a way of happiness. She's his wife, most likely. She isn't the source of his happiness, so the marriage might be on the rocks. He's holding on. "How long can this go on?"
I hope reading poems brings you all happiness. I'd love to read thoughtful comments.
MeMe from United States
Comment 29 of 31, added on June 11th, 2007 at 3:32 PM.
this is a really good poem LOL
katey
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this poem is sick i like it i keep reading it over and over
ernie from United States