Summary Of Consummation Of Grief By Charles Bukowski

Tyson explores different theories such as reader-response criticism to justify why readers interpret or criticize writings in their own way. In the poem “Consummation Of Grief” by Charles Bukowski, Bukowski is grieving over the realization that everyone dies after completing what they have been set on earth for, but conflict begins when he feels as though he has no purpose. He applies metaphors to compare this grief with nature itself such as “I even hear the mountains the way they laugh” (Bukowski 2012) giving the poem a spiritual almost magical genre. From the beginning, what was once a mysterious line, there was a closure in the end with not only the reader but Bukowski as well where his grief ends with the acceptance of his fate. A transactional