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Poem Analysis: Why She Has Done It Again
The narrator begins by saying she has "done it again." But what is “it.” Why does she do this “every ten years?” She considers herself a walking miracle with bright skin, her right foot a "paperweight," and her face as fine as a "Jew Linen". She asks some unknown enemy to peel the napkin from her face, and asks whether he is terrified by fer facial features. She assures him that her "sour breath" will vanish in a day. She believes that her flesh will be restored to her face after having been sacrificed to the grave, and that then she will then be a smiling, 30 year-old woman. Every 10 years, she says she dies and that she is able to die nine times like a cat, and that this was her third death. After each death, a "peanut-crunching crowd shoves in” to see her body unwrapped. She is on display now for the world to see, “the big strip tease, Gentlemen, ladies,” shows them that she still remains skin and bone, “I am the same, identical, woman.” …show more content…
The second death was on purpose and she did not mean to return from it. Instead, she was as "shut as a seashell" emotionally and physically from the world until she was called back by people who had to pick up the worms off of her dying corpse. She believes that "Dying, Is an art, like everything else," and that she does it “exceptionally well” because each time, "it feels real," and gets easier and easier for her. She can do it in a cell, or do it and stay in the same place. The hard part she says is coming back to the same old, same old. The return to the same place and body, in broad daylight where everyone in the crowd see’s her do this and shout out, “A miracle!” She believes people should pay her to look at her scars, hear her heartbeat, “And there is a charge, a very large charge” for receiving a word, getting to touch her or be touched by her, even a bit of blood, pieces of her hair or

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