The_Death_Of_Marylin_Monroe

The Death Of Marylin Monroe “The Death of Marilyn Monroe” Each poem that is written holds a feeling to it only the author can experience from writing it. As each reader picks up that poem and reads it, it can be interpreted as a memory or a feeling only that person is familiar with. No person can relate to a poem the same way the person before them did. This is a small part of poetry and all the ways it can be read. In a poem by Sharon Olds she explains the feeling around Marilyn Monroe’s death. A feeling most of us remember but no one can put in plain words. In a short 25-lined poem Sharon Olds explains the emptiness many men and woman felt when Marilyn Monroe was pronounced dead. Without exactly stating what Marilyn Monroe was, we paint a picture in our heads of an icon, whose death was astonishing. Miss Monroe wasn’t only a beautiful woman that men looked at as a dream girl, but a role model for women everywhere. Her stunning good looks made her stick out of a crowd like a streak of lightning. Her girlie figure and always perfect-hair made eric, each, death, marilyn, poem, out, one, monroe, men, made, soon, man, family, dream, day, woman, wasn’t, seemed, say, person, melina, loved, look, just, girlfriend, feeling, dreams, crush, came, body, always, about, years, way, wanted