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Sunday, October 12, 2014

Still Life_Mann


It took me a while to understand what this piece was about. It established voice almost immediately for me however and I was drawn into it. I felt as though someone was confiding in me as though I was a therapist. It was raw and descriptive; the emotion was real from the second line.
            The opening line “I don’t think you understand”, sets the whole piece up to be a mystery. How could anyone understand, he isn’t talking to a fellow comrade who witnessed as he did, he is talking to a nobody, and how could we ever understand what he understands? The whole piece felt conversational and casual. It was easy to feel, without necessarily understanding.

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