Valerie's Review of Lena's 'Bad Dream'

Such a beautiful, powerful poem, it brought tears to my eyes as I thought about a friend I lost over the summer. I love the fact that the poem has progression, the narrator goes from being in denial to slowly admitting that their friend has died. The use of strong nature metaphors really help to emphasize the pain the narrator is feeling. I also like the fact that there aren’t any analogies in the description of his death and body, it gives such a sense of harsh bitter sense of reality. I think that making all the metaphors nature related, possible even all water related (since many of them already are water related) will tie the whole thing together.