After So Up By Katherine Wellander

This poem by Katherine Wellander is set on the idea that after death everyone is reborn as a new person. In the poem “After Soup,” the character chokes while eating soup, she then dies and begins her journey of death. Katherine identifies her death by saying “She felt her spirit peel away” in line seven. She begins her journey by lapping the earth but “on the seventh lap she collapsed and started her journey all over again as she lay awaiting to be reborn once again.”
Response
This poem ties together well with my overall theme of rebirth. I think that at the beginning she used content from another story. Although the story and the poem are fiction she supports the idea of rebirth taking the story that everyone is familiar with and modifying
it into her own poem. She writes about what her personal beliefs are. About the journey we all embark on after our last days on earth has been spent, and our breath, and spirit leave our bodys. I personally don't believe in reincarnation but i can see where she is coming from and how her beliefs could connect to make sense.