Today I am choosing to write about Reuben Bright by Edwin Arlington Robinson. I found the poem very interesting in that a butcher, who dismembers animals for a living, finds out that his wife “must die” and breaks down. After her death, the butcher keeps a few keepsakes from his wife and tears down his slaughter house.?? I am really curious as to why his wife had to die and in what manor it was done. Does the author mean that she was going to die no matter what so she must or did she commit some sort of crime and must be put to death?? Either way, the butcher’s actions are understandable from a point, but I like to have a whole picture of what is going on. Whether she was put to death or died, the butcher was tired of being surrounded by death and having a constant reminder that she is as dead as the meat he is dismembering and decided to tear down his labor in death and live as peacefully as he could. I love that the author touches on the fact that most tough guys have a certain image, but are capable of loving just as deeply as others. So deeply in fact, that the man breaks down into tears that make other women cry. Anyway, good poem. J
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