Operating Room By John Reed

John Reed was a journalist, poet, and socialist activist from Portland, Oregon. Reed was often sick growing up. Surrounded by nurses for much of his childhood and select friends. He was isolated until he entered school. As Reed grew older he entered Harvard and aimed to be a journalist. There at Harvard was Reed's first introduction to socialism. His friend Walter Lippmann was presided. Although Reed never joined it was an ideology that would remain within his psyche for many years. After graduating Reed became attracted to horror situations as moths are to light. He would become friends mexican rebel leader Pancho Villa and Russian communist leader Vladimir Lenin. Throughout his life Reed witnessed many massacres firsthand which would become the inspiration of his writings. In his poem, Operating Room, Reed creates a frightening look upon a medical procedure to portray his time spent with Vladimir Lenin.
Reed then continues to say that the sunshine coldly glinted upon the spattered gules where men scrub the floor from the patient before to prepare for the next. Reed quickly turns the poem into the opposite direction the reader suspected. It turns dark so he may portray his view that people should only see what we want them to see. As the next patient enters the operating room they will see a clean well lit room unknowing about what is to happen. This is a symbolism for Reed's friend Lenin promise of “peace, land, and bread.” If people’s first impression is nice then they will believe it is