Something Interesting

Since I was absent for the "Lobsters" discussion, I will be writing about The Knife discussion. I entered The Knife discussion thinking about things like the author first making the readers think he was a murderer and then finally letting us know he was a surgeon and all of the different similes Richard Seltzer uses. At the end of the discussion I had many new ideas about the passage. A main idea that interested me was that the author related a surgeon to a poet and a priest. Also, the seriousness of a surgeon that he showed.

My new ideas about the poem are that the author uses similes to relate to religion. Also, the surgeon is like a God the way he can save lives or in one little mistake, take them away. A surgeon intricately and artfully carves perfect surgeries, like a poet and their masterpiece's. The surgeon is disgusted with his profession, yet in awe with how beautiful it is. I like having discussions like this one because they really do get me to think in different ways.