Beware: Do Not Read This Poem By Ishmael Reed

There are many scary stories out there that are meant to starrtle us. Some books try to scare their readers by giving spooky details or, by vivid drawing in the book. Many people do get scared from books but many also do not. For a personal perspective I do not get spooked out by books, I usually always need to see the scenes acted out like on a movie which I know a lot of people that have to do that as well. Ways that the author transforms roles trying to scare us is for example, in the poem “Beware: do not read this poem, by, Ishmael Reed” the author gives details that can be taken in two or more ways. It really makes the reader have to think what's behind this poem and what is the moral story of it. From doing these transformations the author can startle some readers when they realize that the women was so obsessed with how she looked, that is anyone got in the way of the mirror and
The little child is outside and there is this creature like thing that captures the little child. I believe this poem has a better spookiness to it then the poem “Beware: do not read this poem, by, Ishmael Reed” because, it relates more to modern horror movies and also have vivid details but the reader has to read it a couple of times just like any other poem that has a backstory to it to get the full reason of this poem. In this specific poem the way the other transformed roles that could have scared the reader is by relating it to modern horror films so the readers can get an idea on where the author wants it to be lead on. The reader can be started from this book from incorporating a child and a creature that is not pleasant and combing it into a tragedy (Louise Erdrich